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S08.01.046Description
An outcrop of the Black Hand Sandstone Member of the Cuyahoga Formation that forms the Cantwell Cliffs park area at Hocking Hills State Park, Hocking County, Ohio. Cantwell Cliffs is the farthest north of the park areas in the Hocking Hills State Park. It is primarily a gigantic precipice, 150 feet high in the shape of a horseshoe. The headward erosion of Buck Run worked on the Black Hand Sandstone to create the valley. The rock surface pictured here shows prominent crossbedding and some honeycomb weathering. Joints in the Blackhand Sandstone are abundantly evident at the Cantwell Cliffs Park especially along the face of the rock shelter at the valley head. Bedrock is from the Mississippian Geologic Period. The photograph was taken by George W. White in 1945.
Information taken from The Geology of Hocking State Park by John F. Hall (Ohio Geological Survey, Information Circular No. 8, 1953) and Geology of the South Bloomingville Quadrangle, Hocking and Vinton Counties, By Richard M. DeLong (Ohio Geological Survey, Report of Investigations, No. 63, 1968) and Geology of the Hocking Hills State Park Region by Michael C. Hansen (Ohio Division of Geological Survey, Guidebook No. 4, 1975).
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Tall, sandstone outcrop with one person standing near and one person at the bottom. Cantwell Cliffs park area in the Hocking Hills State Park.