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How Rocks Shaped the Civil War


Still Waters

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A century and a half ago, the Civil War rocked America. But as it turns out, the war itself - in particular, the pivotal battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 - was influenced by rocks.

A just-published article in Geosphere, the journal of the Geological Society of America, details how rock formations helped to determine the outcome at Gettysburg, where Union forces stopped a desperate Southern effort to invade the North, and ultimately sealed the Confederacy's fate.

http://news.discover...-war-160322.htm

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