This is the Sideline Hill Cut on Interstate 68 in western Maryland, about 6 miles west of Hancock. When the cut was made to build the highway in 1986 it exposed 810 feet of strata in a tightly folded syncline. These rocks are 325-350 million years old. We were there on June 7 and 9, 2002, on the way to and from the Maryland Ornithological Society's conference at Deep Creek Lake at the far western end of Maryland.

This is the Sideline Hill Cut on Interstate 68 in western Maryland, about 6 miles west of Hancock. When the cut was made to build the highway in 1986 it exposed 810 feet of strata in a tightly folded syncline. These rocks are 325-350 million years old. We were there on June 7 and 9, 2002, on the way to and from the Maryland Ornithological Society's conference at Deep Creek Lake at the far western end of Maryland.