The Silurian Tuscarora Formation — also known as Tuscarora Sandstone or Tuscarora Quartzite — is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia, US.
Outcrop of Tuscarora Formation in Thickhead Wild Area, Centre County, Pennsylvania
Tuscarora quartzite cliff on the west side of North Fork Mountain in West Virginia.
Conformable contact of overlying Tuscarora Formation (white rock, left) with underlying Juniata Formation (red rock, right) at the Narrows along U.S. 30 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
Sample of Silurian Tuscarora Formation collected from Bald Eagle Mountain, Centre County, Pennsylvania, showing Diplocraterion trace fossil at left. Specimen is ~22cm high.
Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Bedford County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 47,577. The county seat is Bedford. The county is part of the Southwest Pennsylvania region of the state.
Bedford County Courthouse
View from Glade Pike on Dry Ridge
Blue Knob, the most northern 3,000 footer in the Allegheny Mountain Range