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Mount Pisgah, York County, Pennsylvania

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Location
Name
Geology
References

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| name = Mt. Pisgah
| elevation_ft = 865
| elevation_ref =
| prominence_ft = 500
| prominence_ref =
| location = York County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| range = Piedmont (United States)
| topo = USGS Red Lion (PA) 7.5-minute Quadrangle
}}

Not to be confused with Mount Pisgah, Carbon County, Pennsylvania above Jim Thorpe, which terminates the northeastern end of the 12.5 mile long Pisgah Mountain (or Pisgah Ridge) in the Lehigh Valley.

For the peak located in northeastern Pennsylvania's Glaciated Low Plateau region, see Mount Pisgah, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

Mount Pisgah is a peak in York County, Pennsylvania situated south-southwest of Wrightsville.

Location

Mt. Pisgah is an 865-foot piece of rising ground that overlooks the Susquehanna River south of Wrightsville, standing about 500 feet above the surrounding rural landscape and providing wide-ranging views of the lower Susquehanna Valley. Samuel S. Lewis State Park is situated on Mt. Pisgah.^[1] On clear days, visitors can see as far as Governor Dick Hill, about 18 miles away.

Name

Mt. Pisgah is named for the biblical mountain in Jordan from which Moses first saw the promised land.

Geology

Mt. Pisgah's view is an excellent place to gain knowledge of some effects of geology and topography on the economic development of this part of Pennsylvania. The landscape near Mt. Pisgah is developed on complexly folded and faulted metamorphic rocks that range in age from Precambrian to Ordovician (600 to 450 mya). These metamorphic rocks were originally sedimentary sandstones, conglomerates, limestones, dolomites, and shales that formed in near shore and shallow marine environments. The high pressures and temperatures of a mountain-building event (450 mya) along with deep burial caused recrystallization of the rocks into slates, phyllites, and schists. Periods of folding and faulting along with erosion and intermittent uplift occurred for hundreds of millions of years to form the present landscape. The Chickies Formation, a resistant rock unit composed mostly of quartzite, underlies Mt. Pisgah.^[2]

References

1. ^{{cite web |title=SAMUEL S. LEWIS STATE PARK YORK COUNTY: MT. PISGAH AND THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/img.stateparkhq.com/files/dcnr_015915.pdf |website=State Park HQ |publisher=Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources |accessdate=10 August 2018}}
2. ^{{cite web |title=MT. PISGAH YORK COUNTY |url=http://www.gis.dcnr.state.pa.us/topo/ogf/OGF_MtPisgah_York.pdf |website=Home of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) |publisher=Pennsylvania's Department of Conservation & Natural Resources |accessdate=10 August 2018}}

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