Английская Википедия:Devils Backbone (Highland County, Virginia)

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Шаблон:Infobox mountain Devils Backbone (also Devil's Backbone) is a ridge and rock outcrop located in Highland County, Virginia, United States. The ridge is located approximately Шаблон:Convert north-northeast of Monterey, Virginia near the village of Blue Grass.[1]

Along the crest of the ridge line is a near vertical outcrop of Tuscarora Sandstone approximately Шаблон:Convert thick.[2][3][4] This formation gives the ridge its name of Devils Backbone, as the outcrop has been described "like the vertebrae of some monstrous prehistoric animal".[5] The formation has also been described as resembling that of "the comb on the head of a domestic fowl".[2]

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