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Ashburner.J 'J'—^ [Feb. 16, 



Lower member. 

 220. Concealed 3' 



219. Partly concealed. Probably composed of massive red 

 silicious saiulstoue and shale with alternations of gray sand- 

 stone and Hugs 114' 



218. Coarse grained greenish-gray sandstone overlaid by red 



shale 3' 



217. Heavy argillaceous gray sand shale, conchoidal frac- 

 ture containing streaks of hematite and manganese 7' 



216. lleddish-gray, sandy slate colored with ferric o.xide 3' 



215. Very hard, flinty greenish-gray, massive sandstone. . . 7' 



214. Alternating brittle green and red shale 2' 



213. Hard, dark-gray sandy slate 2' 



No. X. 



Pocono ( Vespertine) Oray Sandstone 2ViV 



Upper member. 



212. Partly concealed. Composed for the most part of hard, 



coarse grained, massive, brownish-gray and gray sandstone, 



alternating with thinly bedded and flaggy sandstone, and shale 



of the same color. Near the top a few beds of red shale and 



sandstone 580' 



[At the west end of Sideling Hill tunnel.] 

 211. Massive gray sandstone surfaces coated with ferric 



oxide 8' 



210. Alternating massive gray and greenish-gray sandstone 

 containing a twelve inch seam of black slate showing im- 

 pressions of minute plants 22' 



3[iddle member, upper part. 

 {New River Coal Series). 

 209. Massive gray sandstone containing thin partings of coal. 29' 



208. Gray argillaceous sand 5" 



207. Coal (seam No. 19) 2^" 



206. Soft greenish-gray micaceous shale 1'3" 



205. Light gray, massive sandstone containing thin plates of 



coal and micaceous specks 56/ 



204. Sandstone containing thin partings of coal 1' 



203. Soft, loose sandstone containing seams of coal, running 



irregularly through the mass, amounting in all to about 5 



inches 6' 



202. Massive sandstone containing in its lower part plates 



of coal 12' 



201. Poor, bony coal (Seam No. 18) 2" 



200. Sandstone 1/G" 



199. Argillaceous sand v 



198. Coal (^Seam No. 17), maximum thickness 9 inches 3" 



