Whaleback anticline (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Whaleback anticline

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The former Bear Valley Strip Mine in Pennsylvania is the site of the “Whaleback anticline,” named because the 30-foot-tall hump of bedrock looks like a whale. Decades of coal mining exposed folds in the bedrock that offer clues to the landscape’s history. The Virtual Field Geology project uses drone photography to create virtual field visits on a web browser or virtual reality headset.

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