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Union and Snyder Counties (84, pp. 65-6H) : 



Sandy calcareous shales 175 



Ore, sand vein 2-3 



I'urplish red calcareous shale 10-30 



Ore, Danville ore 



Shale, middle olive shale l^O 



Iron sandstone and shales \ .< (50-70 



Shale, lower olive shale oOO-GOO 



Birdseye fossil ore 



Shales, low^er olive shales 150 



Inches 



16-18 



&-10 



Moores Ore Bank (83, p. 58 F) : 



Shale 

 Ore 



Fire-clay 

 Ore 



White clay, carbonaceous 



Limestone, at top a rotten olive shale 



Sandstone 



Granville Gap (83, p. 46 F) : 



Lower Clinton shales 135 



Block-ore 13 



Ferruginous sandstone 6 



Shale, light green and yellow 30 



Birdseye fossil ore, rich 



Yellow shale 30 



Block-shot-ore 



Shales 150-200 



Medina sandstone, No. IV 



Inches 



8-12 



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The Clinton red hematites of New York meet the requirements of the 

 artesian theory : impervious layers of shales and cherty limestones, with 

 coarse oolitic or fossil ore in the porous layers, 



Genesee Gor^e, Rochester (234, p. 20) : ^ . , .. 



° ' \ ' J- / pgg^ Inches 



Bluish gray limestone 18 



Green shale 24 



Hard siliceous limestone 14 



Iron ore, fossil 14-16 



Green shale 24 



Ontario (234, p. 21): „ . r ^, 



^ ' ^ ' Feet Inches 



Cherty limestone S 



Iron ore, fossil 2 2 



Green shale 9 



Medina shale 



