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- Ridgeley_sandstone abstract "The Ridgeley sandstone is a sandstone or quartzite of Devonian age found in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia, USA. The Ridgeley is fine-grained, siliceous, calcareous in its lower strata, sometimes fossiliferous, and sometimes locally pebbly or conglomeritic. Varying in thickness from 12 to 500 feet (4–150 m), this rock slowly erodes into white quartz sand that often washes or blows away, but sometimes accumulates at large outcrops. When freshly broken, the rock is white, but outcrop surfaces are often stained yellowish by iron oxides.The Ridgeley Sandstone was described and named in 1913 from an outcrop in Ridgeley, West Virginia, across the North Branch of the Potomac River from Cumberland, Maryland. It is currently recognized as the Ridgeley Member of the Old Port Formation; it has often been called the Oriskany sandstone in the region, but that name is based on an outcrop at Oriskany Falls, New York, and its application to these Central Appalachian rocks is debatable.Outcrops of the erosion-resistant, ridge-forming Ridgeley (\"Oriskany\") sandstone are conspicuous landscape features in the Ridge and Valley physiographic province from south-central Pennsylvania through western Maryland and eastern West Virginia to Craig County in western Virginia. Ridgely outcrops form part of the lateral structures of North Fork Mountain, New Creek Mountain, and Wills Mountain of the Wills Mountain Anticline, although it is the even more erosion-resistant Silurian-aged Tuscarora Quartzite, not the Ridgely sandstone, that caps most parts of the prominent central ridge of this long geological structure. Other conspicuous Ridgeley outcrops include Caudy's Castle (Castle Rock) and Ice Mountain, both in Hampshire County, West Virginia.At Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, warm water flows from natural mineral springs in the Ridgeley sandstone of Warm Springs Ridge; spa facilities (now in Berkeley Springs State Park) have long used these waters.The Ridgeley sandstone is sometimes quarried and crushed to produce quartz sand for glass-making; one such quarry is near Berkeley Springs.".
- Ridgeley_sandstone thumbnail Ridgeley_522_pan.jpg?width=300.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageID "33264557".
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageLength "5825".
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageOutDegree "47".
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageRevisionID "689593064".
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Anticline.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Appalachian_Mountains.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Berkeley_Springs,_West_Virginia.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Berkeley_Springs_State_Park.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Category:Devonian_Maryland.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Category:Devonian_West_Virginia.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Category:Devonian_geologic_formations.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Category:Devonian_geology_of_Pennsylvania.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Category:Devonian_geology_of_Virginia.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sandstone_formations_of_the_United_States.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Caudys_Castle.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Craig_County,_Virginia.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Cumberland,_Maryland.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Devonian.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Glass.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Hampshire_County,_West_Virginia.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Huntingdon_County,_Pennsylvania.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Ice_Mountain.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Iron_oxide.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Maryland.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Mineral_spring.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink New_Creek_Mountain.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink North_Fork_Mountain.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Old_Port_Formation.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Oriskany_Falls,_New_York.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Oriskany_Formation.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvania.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Physiographic_province.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Potomac_River.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Quarry.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Quartz.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Quartzite.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Ridge-and-Valley_Appalachians.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Ridgeley,_West_Virginia.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Sandstone.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Shirleysburg,_Pennsylvania.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Silicon_dioxide.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Silurian.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Stratum.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Tuscarora_Formation.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink U.S._Route_522.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Virginia.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Warm_Spring_Run.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink West_Virginia.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Wills_Mountain.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLink Wills_Mountain_Anticline.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Oriskany (Ridgeley) sandstone".
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Oriskany (Ridgeley)".
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Oriskany Sandstone".
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Oriskany sandstone".
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Oriskany".
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ridgeley (Oriskany)".
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ridgeley Member sandstone".
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ridgeley Member".
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ridgeley sandstone".
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Wide_image.
- Ridgeley_sandstone subject Category:Devonian_Maryland.
- Ridgeley_sandstone subject Category:Devonian_West_Virginia.
- Ridgeley_sandstone subject Category:Devonian_geologic_formations.
- Ridgeley_sandstone subject Category:Devonian_geology_of_Pennsylvania.
- Ridgeley_sandstone subject Category:Devonian_geology_of_Virginia.
- Ridgeley_sandstone subject Category:Sandstone_formations_of_the_United_States.
- Ridgeley_sandstone hypernym Sandstone.
- Ridgeley_sandstone type Place.
- Ridgeley_sandstone comment "The Ridgeley sandstone is a sandstone or quartzite of Devonian age found in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia, USA. The Ridgeley is fine-grained, siliceous, calcareous in its lower strata, sometimes fossiliferous, and sometimes locally pebbly or conglomeritic. Varying in thickness from 12 to 500 feet (4–150 m), this rock slowly erodes into white quartz sand that often washes or blows away, but sometimes accumulates at large outcrops.".
- Ridgeley_sandstone label "Ridgeley sandstone".
- Ridgeley_sandstone sameAs Q7332766.
- Ridgeley_sandstone sameAs m.0h7qhbg.
- Ridgeley_sandstone sameAs Q7332766.
- Ridgeley_sandstone wasDerivedFrom Ridgeley_sandstone?oldid=689593064.
- Ridgeley_sandstone depiction Ridgeley_522_pan.jpg.
- Ridgeley_sandstone isPrimaryTopicOf Ridgeley_sandstone.