Friday fold: GSW fall field trip

Last Saturday was the Geological Society of Washington’s fall field trip. Dan Doctor, Alan Pitts, and I led a team of ~20 geologists out to the great new exposures along Corridor H in West Virginia.

Here’s the team in front of some of the parasitic anticlines and synclines that decorate the larger structure of the Patterson Creek Mountain Anticline:

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The strata here are Silurian-aged tidal flat carbonates of the Tonoloway Formation. We collected salt casts, ostracod fossils, and mudcracks here while marveling at the overall structure…

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