WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 5 1 



Gaston Section, Hackers Creek Section. 



Thickness Total 



Dunkard Series (202') Peet. Feet. 

 Shale, brown, sandy, with thin sandstone, from 



top of Purgatory Knob 48 48 



Sandstone, flaggy, fine grained, micaceous, 



greenish gray, Lower Marietta 27 75 75' 



Concealed, mostly shale 50 125 



Sandstone, coarse, buff, medium hard, Man- 



nington 35 160 



Shale, brown and concealed 10 170 



Sandstone, massive, coarse, soft, brown, with 



numerous quartz pebbles, Waynesburg. . . 32 202 127' 

 Monongahela and Conemaugh Series (501') 



Shale ?.nd concealed 24 226 



Sandstone, Gilboy 15 241 



Shale, partly concealed 44 285 



Sandstone, green, flaggy, micaceous, fine, 



Uniontown 16 301 99' 



Shale, mostly red 33 334 



Sandstone, green, fine 5 339 



Shale, mostly red 72 411 



Sandstone, fine, green, flaggy, micaceous, Ar- 



noldsburg 17 428 



Concealed and red shale 32 460 



Shale, brown 22 482 



Sandstone, green, fine, flaggy, micaceous, Se- 



wickley 22 504 203' 



Concealed 28 532 



Sandstone, shaly, Cedarville 23 555 



Shale and concealed 10 565 



Coal, Redstone (4' 10"), (Nathaniel Bush Mine 



No. 81 on Map II, 1153' L.) 5 570 66' 



Concealed to Stonecoal Creek 133 703 



In the following section the surface portion was mea- 

 sured with hand level at Deanville about one mile north of 

 Weston, and, as arranged in descending order, starts at the top 

 of a high knob one-half mile southeast of the former place. 

 The lower portion is the record of the Sarah J. Bennett No. 

 2757 (134) gas well drilled by the Hope Natural Gas Company 

 just across the West Fork River opposite Deanville : 



Deanville Section, Hackers Creek District. 



Thickness Total 



Monongahela Series (361') Feet. Feet. 

 Shalp. sand 11 ' f^-om top of knob, y 2 mile south- 

 east of Deanville 11 11 



Sandstone, fine, green, flaggy, Gilboy 20 31 



Shale, red 5 36 



Sandstone, brown, fine, flaggy, Uniontown.... 17 53 53' 



