WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 83 



Thickness Total 



Feet. Feet. 



Sandstone, white, Gas Sand 90 1313 



Slate, white 71 1384 



Pottsville Series (424') 



Sandstone, hard, white, Homewood 46 1430 



Shale, black 8 1438 



Slate and sand, shale and lime 36 1474 



Shale, sandy 44 1518 



Coal, Upper Mercer 1518 352' 



Shale, soft 25 1543 



Shales, sandy 70 1613 



Sandstone, fine, gray, and limestone 45 1658 



Shale, white and black, with limestone nug- 

 gets 106 1764 



Sandstone, very hard and white, Salt 44 1808 



Mauch Chunk Series (195') 



Shale, black and white 10 1818 



Sand, dark gray 30 1848 



Shale, with sand, and limestone, hard 50 1898 



Limestone 20 1918 



Shale and limestone (4 7 / 8 " casing) 70 1988 



Sand, hard and limy, Maxton 55 2043 528' 



Greenbrier Limestone (65') 



Big Lime (gas at bottom) 65 2108 



Pocono Sandstones (320') 



Sand, white, Big Injun (gas and little oil) . . . . 63 2171 



Slate, with shells 217 2388 



Sand, Berea (some oil) 40 2428 



Catskill and Chemung Series (650') 



Slate, blue 305 2733 690' 



Sand, Gordon 6 2739 



Slate 69 2808 



Hard, sandy pebble, Fourth Sand 1 2809 



Slate to bottom 209 3078 



The following section, arranged in descending order, was 

 measured with hand level up a private road on the east side 



of Tanner Creek, 0.6 mile northwest of Latonia. The Wash- 

 ington Coal belongs at the top of the Washington Fire Clay 

 Shale, but its blossom could not be found : 



Latonia Section, Dekalb District. 



Thickness. Total. 



Dunkard Series (207') Feet. Feet. 



Concealed from top of hill 58 58 58' 



Fire clay shale, yellow, Washington (top, 



1116' L.) 28 86 



Sandstone, massive, Mannington 38 124 



Concealed and sandy shale 27 151 



Concealed, mostly shale 39 190 



Sandstone, shaly, Waynesburg 17 207 149' 



