Seneca Rocks - A Rock Climber's Paradise

Rising 900 feet above the North Fork South Branch Potomac River, Seneca Rocks is one of West Virginia's best known scenic attractions, and is very popular with rock climbers.

Seneca Rocks is a crag composed of Tuscarora quartzite, a hard metamorphic rock, nearly 250 feet thick.

"The rock is composed of fine grains of sand that were laid down approximately 440 million years ago, in an extensive sand shoal at the edge of the ancient Iapetus Ocean. Years of geologic activity followed, as the ocean was slowly destroyed and the underlying rock uplifted and folded. Millions of years of erosion stripped away the overlaying rock and left remnants of the arching folds in formations such as Seneca Rocks."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Rocks)



The Summit of Seneca Rocks