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  2. Geology of West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Geologic Map of West Virginia. West Virginia's geologic history stretches back into the Precambrian, and includes several periods of mountain building and erosion. At times, much of what is now West Virginia was covered by swamps, marshlands, and shallow seas, accounting for the wide variety of sedimentary rocks found in the state, as well as its wealth of coal and natural gas deposits.

  3. Princeton, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    2390640 [2] Website. www.cityofprinceton.org. Princeton is a city in and the county seat of Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 5,872 at the 2020 census. [3] It is part of the Bluefield micropolitan area. The city hosts the Princeton WhistlePigs baseball club of the Appalachian League.

  4. Geology of the Appalachians - Wikipedia

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    Generalized east-to-west cross section through the central Hudson Valley region. USGS image. During the earliest part of the Paleozoic, the continent that would later become North America straddled the equator. The Appalachian region was a passive plate margin, not unlike today's Atlantic Coastal Plain province. During this interval, the region ...

  5. New River Gorge National Park and Preserve - Wikipedia

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    President Jimmy Carter signed legislation establishing New River Gorge National River on November 10, 1978 (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 95–625).As stated in the legislation, the park was established as a unit of the national park system "for the purpose of conserving and interpreting outstanding natural, scenic, and historic values and objects in and around the New River Gorge ...

  6. Virginian Railway Yard Historic District - Wikipedia

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    May 1, 2003. Virginian Railway Yard Historic District is a national historic district located at Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia. The district includes 14 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure related to the Virginian Railway property at Princeton. Many date to the founding of the railway in 1905 ...

  7. Foreknobs Formation - Wikipedia

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    Boswell, et al. (1987), does not recognize the Scherr and Foreknobs Formations in the subsurface of West Virginia and thus these formations are reduced from "group" to "formation" as the Greenland Gap Formation. [4] Rossbach and Dennison (1994) extended the Foreknobs into the Catawba syncline of southwestern Virginia. [5]

  8. Category : Log buildings and structures in West Virginia

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    Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia‎ (54 P) Pages in category "Log buildings and structures in West Virginia" This category contains only the following page.

  9. This simple log structure may be the oldest example of early ...

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    The log structure was made at least 476,000 years ago, while the wood tools are slightly younger, under 400,000 years old. That places the materials in a time before our species, Homo sapiens ...

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