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Spring Creek Arch is a natural arch of resistant Silurian Geologic Period Peebles Dolomite in the Fort Hill Earthworks and Nature Preserve, Highland County, Ohio. 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 in 1984.
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).
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Layered rock boulder in the formation of an arch. Spring Creek Arch in the Fort Hill Earthworks and Nature Preserve.