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Hinton Formation (looking west) - this is the Oakvale School outcrop in West Virginia, USA from which the bivalve crinkle bed specimen shown in this album derives.

The rocks here are overturned beds of the Hinton Formation (Upper Mississippian). Stratigraphic up is to the right (north). Rocks are dipping ~50° to the south. The beds are mostly reddish and greenish-gray mudshales with some resistant siltstone & sandstone interbeds. Some of the sandstones have shale rip-up clasts. Well-defined burrows (trace fossils) can be found in some of the hard mudshales and sandstones. Observed body fossil occurrences here include bivalve pavements (see photos in this album) and poorly defined, carbonized plant fossil fragments in the shales. Some loose shale & sandstone samples have fault slickenlines.
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Source Hinton Formation (overturned bedding) (Upper Mississippian; Oakvale School outcrop - Rt. 112 roadcut through Divide Ridge, far-southeastern Mercer County, far-southern West Virginia, USA)
Author James St. John

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