Bear Valley Strip Mine

The coal and other overlying rock has been removed by mining down to a resistant sandstone bed, revealing the three-dimensional structures of folding and faulting caused by the Alleghany Orogeny. Students of geology have visited the location for decades due to the quality of exposures.

The central anticline in the valley is often called the "Whaleback".

The sequence of structural deformation is outlined as follows:^[1]

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  Concretions in the south wall
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  View of the east wall from the Whaleback
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  Slickensides on a fault plane, south wall. Lens cap 5.8 cm wide.
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  Upright Sigillaria in dipping sandstone and shale beds of the north wall. A so-called "Polystrate fossil".
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  Another image of the south wall and Whaleback
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  Stigmaria root fossils

40°45.8′N 76°35.7′W / 40.7633°N 76.5950°W / 40.7633; -76.5950

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