Sideling Hill field trip
Today I took a group of students to Sideling Hill, a syncline in western Maryland. Here are a few photos from the trip. All photos by my iPhone, via Facebook (which is why the quality is lower than my usual standards):
The group all kitted out at the Sideling Hill Visitor's Center (which was closed due to budget cuts in Maryland):
Jared points out fast-weathering shale layers betwixt slower-weathering sandstone layers:
Diamictite outcrop on the far western side of Sideling Hill:
More diamictite... enigmatic sediments...
In the parking lot of a gas station, we saw some nice siltstone with plumose structure:
Lovely plumose structure:
The group all kitted out at the Sideling Hill Visitor's Center (which was closed due to budget cuts in Maryland):
Jared points out fast-weathering shale layers betwixt slower-weathering sandstone layers:
Diamictite outcrop on the far western side of Sideling Hill:
More diamictite... enigmatic sediments...
In the parking lot of a gas station, we saw some nice siltstone with plumose structure:
Lovely plumose structure:
Man, it's a long drive out there and back in one day! We also stopped at Sandy Mile Road, at the outcrop of brachiopod-fossil-bearing Oriskany Sandstone there. Good to be back home...
Labels: maryland, nova, primary structures, sediment, structure, teaching, valley and ridge, weathering
1 Comments:
oh so beautiful place
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