Honeycomb Rocks ~ Highland Scenic Highway
Pocahontas County, West Virginia
These rocks, mostly sandstone and hematite, are an example of quartz boxwork hematite deposits, that are formed over eons of geological folding and weathering.
The folding caused cracks in the rocks which filled with iron-rich water that hardened into hematite.
Time and weather eroded the sandstone, leaving the much harder hematite, forming the raised squares, rectangles, and diamond shapes.
