Chestnut Ridge is an elongate hill trending northeast-southwest in west-central Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It is partially forested with rural homes, farms, and notably apple orchards. Four small t
Oblique air photo of Chestnut Ridge, facing northeast
Keyser Formation
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The Late Silurian to Early Devonian Keyser Formation is a mapped limestone bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Chestnut Ridge, Bedford County
…Stone & Lime Co., Inc. New Paris Quarry (inactive) is located on the northwest flank of the ridge. Early Devonian Limestone of the fossiliferous Keyser Formation is quarried there. See also Geology of Bedford County, Pennsylvania…
Outcrop of the Keyser Formation on U.S. Route 522 in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, north of Warfordsburg
Crinoid fragments at the Old Eldorado Quarry outcrop along I-99, Blair County, PA
Stromatoporoids at the Old Eldorado Quarry outcrop along I-99, Blair County, PA
Tabulate coral in the New Enterprise New Paris Quarry on Chestnut Ridge in Bedford County, PA. Probably Halysites.