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The rockshelter is a natural formation beneath an overhanging cliff of Morgantown-Connellsville sandstone, which is a thick Pennsylvanian-age sandstone brown in color. Meadowcroft is in the Allegheny Plateau, northwest of the Appalachian Basin.
The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2005.
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