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Rays Hill

Coordinates: 39°54′20″N 78°15′58″W / 39.90556°N 78.26611°W / 39.90556; -78.26611
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Rays Hill

Rays Hill is a mountain ridge in Pennsylvania's Ridge and Valley Appalachians region. Rays Hill is bordered by Sideling Hill to the east and Tussey Mountain to the west.

Rays Hill is the same mountain ridge that holds the Rays Hill Tunnel one of the abandoned tunnels of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

This mountain ridge forms the boundary between Bedford and Fulton counties in south central Pennsylvania, and also extends northward into Huntingdon County.

Part of Buchanan State Forest lies on Rays Hill.

Geology

Rays Hill is held up by the Mississippian Pocono Formation, which dips to the southeast. The Mississippian-Devonian Rockwell Formation and Devonian Catskill Formation are exposed on the northwest flank of the mountain below the Pocono. Town Hill, to the west, and Rays Hill form a syncline.[1]

References

  1. ^ Map 61:Atlas of Preliminary Geologic Quadrangle Maps of Pennsylvania, Amaranth, Breezewood, and Mench Quadrangles
  • "Latitude and Longitude from TopoQuest". TopoQuest.com.

39°54′20″N 78°15′58″W / 39.90556°N 78.26611°W / 39.90556; -78.26611

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