Fort Valley is a mountain valley in Shenandoah County, Virginia, often called a valley within a valley because it lies between the two arms of the northern Blue Ridge Mountains within the larger Shenandoah Valley. It sits in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians geological zone, the folded and faulted mountain belt that also shapes the Shenandoah Valley itself. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Fort Valley is a mountain valley located primarily in Shenandoah County, Virginia.
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Fort Valley is a mountain valley located primarily in Shenandoah County, Virginia
Caused By: Orogeny, Article text
The Fort Valley and Massanutten mountain range is the result of the Alleghanian Orogeny, the geologic process where a continental plate crumples and is pushed upwards to form mountain ranges.
Caused By: Weathering, Article text
Differential weathering produced the mountain/valley pattern within the Appalachian Ridge and Valley province to which Fort Valley, the Massanutten range and the adjacent Shenandoah and Page Valleys of Virginia belong.
Caused By: Erosion, Article text
Over millennia, the Fort Valley was etched away due to low resistance of its limestone, while the mountain ridges of the Massanutten range are a tough quartz sandstone (Massanutten Sandstone, correlative to the Tuscarora Sandstone further to the west in the Ridge and Valley region) more resistant to that erosion.
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