WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. IO5 



LOCAL SECTIONS, DUNKARD SERIES. 



The following section of the Dunkard Series was mea- 

 sured with aneroid descending the hill road at the head of Dry 

 Fork of Fink Creek, two miles northward from Dry Fork 

 town. It includes all the Dunkard formations found in the 

 two counties except those below the Mannington Sandstone : 



Dry Fork Section, Courthouse District. 



Thickness Total 



Dunkard Series (425') Feet. Feet. 

 Sandstone, greenish brown, me- ] 



dium coarse, capping knob. 20' | 



Concealed 5 j> Rush Run 40 40 40' 



Sandstone, brown, micaceous, | 



medium coarse, hard 15 J 



Shale, mostly red 60 100 



Sandstone, flaggy, Jollytown 5 105 



Shale, variegated 20 125 



Sandstone, shaly, Hundred 10 135 



Shale, variegated 45 180 



Sandstone, buff, massive, soft, Upper Marietta 40 220 180' 

 Shale, red, concealed, and variegated shale, 



Creston Reds 110 330 



Sandstone, massive, brown, Lower Marietta.. 25 355 



Concealed 10 365 



Coal blossom, Washington (1045' B.) 365 145' 



Fire clay shale, yellow, Washington 30 395 



Sandstone, massive, Mannington 30 425 



Numerous sections, showing the Dunkard Series, are pub- 

 lished in Chapter IV. The following list gives the thickness 

 of the series, in feet, as it is revealed in those sections : 



Baldwin (95'), Bealls Mills (220'), Bennett (242'), 

 Brownsville (117'), Burnsville (135'), Camden (145'), Cedar- 

 ville (253'), Churchville (265'), Conings (476'), Copley (385'), 

 Coxs Mills (345'), Gaston (202'), Gillooly (290'), Glenville 

 (80'). Hurst (550'?), Latonia (207'), Lorentz (215'), New- 

 berne (412'), Roanoke (38'), Sand Fork (220'), Standing- 

 stone Run (85'), Stouts Mills (190'), Tanner (270'), Troy 

 (20'), Vadis (45'). 



In the section for Hurst the line of separation between 

 the Dunkard and Monongahela is uncertain. 



