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Germany Valley Road Cuts, Pendleton County, WV

Fossil site Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

FossilsFossils

Also reported: brachiopods, corals.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: Silurian-Devonian marine fossils in Ridge-and-Valley limestone/shale exposures

Documented marine-fossil exposures in the Germany Valley/US-33 area noted in WV geological literature.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Highway traffic, falling rock

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