Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

"Whaleback" anticline near Shamokin

Whaleback in a strip mine
The "Whaleback" anticline in Bear Valley strip mine near Shamokin, Pa. is a natural laboratory for teaching structural geology. This location was Stop 3 of the 1983 Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists.
Photo by Richard P. Nickelsen (Bucknell University, emeritus).


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