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and a half from Wytheville, and it may be the same with that seen near 

 Max Meadows on the railroad. It is crossed very near Reed creek on the 

 Lick Mountain road. The dips in this portion are interesting. Within 

 the synclinal ridge, composed of Knox Limestones, the dip is fifty to sixty 

 degrees on both sides. The anticlinal brings up the Knox shales, which 

 are shown on the railroad just west from Kent's mills. The south-easterly 

 dip looking toward the Draper Mountain fault is at first very abrupt, 

 being almost vertical for some distance along the pike, but it becomes^ 

 gentler until the higher limestones have a dip of not more than twenty 

 degrees. 



The Max Meadows fault has its origin evidently in an anticlinal, which 

 is crossed by the Wythe and Tazewell pike at say two miles and a half 

 from the Wytheville borough line ; it is crossed by Cove creek very near 

 its forks and by the Norfolk and Western railroad at not far from three 

 miles and a half beyond Max Meadows station. At a little distance fur- 

 ther it must unite with the Draper Mountain fault. It cuts ofl:'the Wythe- 

 ville anticlinal and synclinal at the east, while on the other side it cuts off 

 a broad synclinal and an anticlinal which are well shown in eastern 

 Wythe and western Pulaski and may be continuous with the Wytheville 

 folds ; but of this, one may not speak positively. The fault becomes 

 greater as it extends south- eastwardly at an angle with the strike, so bring- 

 ing Hudson, Medina, Clinton, Hamilton, Chemung and Vespertine suc- 

 cessively into contact with the Knox limestones and shales on the oppo- 

 site side. 



The Pulaski fault, like the last, is a cross-fault and is the easterly 

 boundary of the area of newer rocks held between the Walker Mountain, 

 Max Meadows, Draper Mountain and Pulaski faults. The details of this 

 fault were not worked out, but if the map employed be accurate, the 

 direction from the Walker Mountain fault is almost south-south-east to 

 Pulaski, where tlie course is changed to east-south-east. Evidently the 

 line is south from Peak creek for more than two miles below Pulaski. 

 Knox limestones are shown throughout on the easterly side of the fault, 

 but on the opposite side are Devonian and Carboniferous rocks as far as 

 followed. The region embraced within these faults was not worked out 

 in detail, as much of it is not cleared ; but it is evident that Cove moun- 

 tain and its Devonian companion are monoclinals and there is every 

 reason to suppose from the exposures along the railroad that an anticlinal 

 exists in the Peak hills, the low ridge directly north from Pulaski. The 

 limits assigned to the several groups within this area are largely conjectu- 

 ral. 



The structure of Pulaski county east from the Pulaski fault is not shown 

 satisfactorily along the roads, but cuts along the New River branch of the 

 Norfolk and Western railroad make the structure clear. The Knox lime- 

 stones are badly twisted for two miles and a half from New River station, 

 but afterwards for nearly a mile they dip quite regularly to the north-west. 

 The dip is reversed at three and a half miles and thence for a mile the pre- 



