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Thickness Total 



Feet. Feet. 



Shale, blue 155 2195 710' 



Sand rock, oil sand, Gordon 45 2240 



Shale, blue 150 2390 195' 



Sand, black, oil smell, Fifth 15 2405 



Shale, blue 25 2430 60' 



Sand shale, blue, Bayard 60 2490 



Chemung Series (244') 



Shale, blue, mixed, to bottom 244 2734 



In the above section the correlation of the sands in the 

 Mississippian and Devonian are open to question since the 

 nearest well record toward the north where wells have been 

 generally drilled and correlations are more certain is the Chas. 

 M. Hyre well (563) at Frenchton, which shows the Pocono 

 Sandstones to be 300 feet thick, and the interval between the 

 top of the Big Lime and the Gordon Sand to be 724 feet, as 

 compared to 710 in the Bablin Section. 



The formation at 495 feet is identified as the Kanawha 

 Black Flint from the abundance of marine fossils, of a strik- 

 ing similarity to those found in the same horizon at its type 

 locality in the Kanawha Valley. The resemblance is so close 

 that Dr. W. A. Price did not hesitate to pronounce it the 

 Black Flint when the writer called his attention to the expo- 

 sure. The finding of this deposit is a most important link in 

 the chain of evidence necessary to correlate the Pottsville of 

 northern West Virginia and Pennsylvania with the greatly 

 expanded measures of the same series in southwestern West 

 Virginia. The formation will be discussed further in Chapters 

 IX and XIII. 



The following section, arranged in descending order, was 

 measured with hand level up the steep hill northeast of Wild- 

 cat, at the corner of Lewis, Braxton and Webster. The 

 Lower Kittanning Coal was concealed, but belongs just over 

 the Homewood Sandstone: 



Wildcat Section. Collins Settlement District. 



Thickness. Total. 



Conemaugh Series (162') Feet. Feet. 



Shale, sandy, from top of knob 35 35 



Sandstone, shaly 5 40 



Sandy shale and concealed 50 90 



Slate, black, bony, fragments, Brush Creek 



Coal, (1420' L.) - 90 90' 



