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S07.04.002Description
The Scioto Brush Creek Arch is at the downstream end of a Peebles Dolomite bluff in Scioto Brush Creek State Nature Preserve, Adams County, Ohio. Bedrock is from the Silurian Geologic Period. The Natural Arch and Bridge Society defines a natural arch as “a rock exposure that has a hole completely through it formed by the natural, selective removal of rock, leaving a relatively intact frame.” The image was taken by Timothy A. Snyder in 1988.
Information taken from Ohio’s Natural Arches by Timothy A. Snyder (Ohio Geological Survey, Education Leaflet No. 18, Revised Edition, 2014) and Rainbows of Rock, Tables of Stone: The Natural Arches and Pillars of Ohio by Timothy A. Snyder (McDonald & Woodward: Granville, Ohio, 2009) and Natural Bridges in Ohio by Michael C. Hansen (Ohio Geological Survey, Ohio Geology Newsletter, Summer 1988).
Location is approximate to the Scioto Brush Creek State Nature Preserve.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Underneath rock arch. Scioto Brush Creek Arch at Scioto Brush Creek State Nature Preserve in Adams County, Ohio.