31 January 2012

Crisp limestone syncline

Posted by Callan Bentley

Nice straight-limbed syncline in the Helderberg Group of West Virginia (Devonian limestones, mainly):

Alan Pitts shot a sweet GigaPan of this outcrop which you can explore here, or you can just look at this zoomed-in detail:

Aaron Barth is down there in the lower right corner for scale.