reefs Archives - Mountain Beltway

Stromatoporoids in a Devonian reef

September 12, 2024August 20, 2015 by Callan Bentley

Here are a few shots of a Devonian aged reef exposed in Mustoe, Virginia – one of the sites I visited this spring with GMU’s Rick Diecchio, when he led his sedimentology and stratigraphy trip there. At first, the outcrop made no sense to me – I kept searching for bedding, and failed to find … Read more

Pisolites in the Tansil Formation, Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico

September 16, 2024February 10, 2015 by Callan Bentley

Pisolites are large primary concretions that develop in backreef or lagoonal settings such as the Permian Tansil Formation of New Mexico, into which is cut the enormous hole called Carlsbad Caverns.