Section of Ferniginous Strata. 



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Section of the Strata at the ^^ Junior Ftamace/^ Scioto Co* 







1-2 



1 



. — ^- — * 1 



20 ^ 



2 



4 



3 



25 



4 



3 



5 



11 



6 



80 



7 







Order descending.— Dip S. E. 



Fi^. 19. 





1 



8 



80 



9 



! 



2 10 



75 11 



1 



r 



U12 



50 ;i3 



414 



500 



15 



18 



16 



883 feet. 



Earth. 



... __.. Sandstone rock. 



'- — Sandstone, 



Iron ore. 

 Limestone. 



- — -Sandfctone rock. 



Iron ore. 



Sandstone rock 



Coal. 



Sandstone rock. ^ 



- Iron ore. 



r Sandstone rock. 



— Coal. 



Sandy. 



Surface of the Ohio 

 river — S. E. 



- — Slaty. 



Black shale. 



Iron stone. 



Salt water 



12 f( 



1. Thin, poor, ash colored soil — timber, oak and yellow pine. 



eet. 



2. Coarse, ash colored, unstratified, compact sandstone rock, con- 

 taining numerous white pebbles and coarse gravel,, imbedded ; easily 

 crumbling and disintegrating. It is invariably the fact that the up- 

 per or surface rocks are much coarser in their composition and 

 texture, than those that are deeper seated and deposited earlier in 

 the series. — 20 feet. 



