Description Within West Virginia\'s irregular borders, formed by winding rivers, high ridges, and the pecularities of colonial land surveys, is a sedimentary record of the entire Paleozoic Era.
In West Virginia\'s Valley and Ridge Provi.
Thick wedges of sandstone, shale, and limestone piled up, all folded by later collisions to the east.
Continents colliding along the eastern coast of North America built huge mountains that shed sediment into a shallow inland sea to the west.
Description Within West Virginia\'s irregular borders, formed by winding rivers, high ridges, and the pecularities of colonial land surveys, is a sedimentary record of the entire Paleozoic Era