Friday folds: Continuing contorted Conestoga carbonates

Happy Friday to you all! I’ve previously showcased folded Conestoga Formation on the campus of Millersville University in Pennsylvania for the Friday fold. Today we’ll go a bit further afield, to the Burle Business Park on New Holland Ave in Lancaster. There are plenty of nice outcrops of Conestoga Formation limestone exposed there, and they have a few cool things to show us.

I visited this site on a field trip during June’s Eastern Section meeting of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. Here’s Martin Schmidt, David Brink-Roby, and Don Duggan-Haas traipsing across one of the exposures:

Sedimentologically, the site is noteworthy because it includes some submarine landslide breccias, as seen here:

But for me, the best part was the plethora of sweet folds:

Happy Friday!

As a friendly reminder, I welcome submissions of “Guest Friday folds” for the blog. Just shoot me an email if you’ve got some cool folds to share!

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