WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. lOQ 



massive, pebbly, cliff-forming quality of other regions. It 

 is usually light brown in color and often directly underlies the 

 Washington Fire Clay Shale. In Chapter IV the Manning- 

 ton Sandstone is noted in the sections for Bennett, Burnsville, 

 Camden, Cedarville, Churchville, Conings, Copley, Gaston, Gil- 

 looly, Hurst, Latonia, Newberne, Sand Fork, and Tanner, and 

 in the present Chapter in that for Dry Fork. No quarries w r ere 

 observed. 



WAYNESBURG SANDSTONE. 



The Waynesburg Sandstone, first named and described 

 by the First Geological Survey of Pennsylvania from its oc- 

 currence at Waynesburg, Pa., is the most conspicuous sand- 

 stone member of the Dunkard Series in Lewis and Gilmer. It 

 is usually massive, buff in color, frequently carrying quartz 

 pebbles as large as marbles and about half rounded by attri- 

 tion, and often forms great cliffs easily followed by the eye. 

 It occurs at nearly all points where the Dunkard Series is 

 found and its place may be readily obtained on Map II from 

 the crop of the base of the Series which is seldom more than 

 10 feet below the sandstone. It was noted frequently along 

 the northwestern border of the two counties where the Dun- 

 kard has its maximum thickness and also along the Grassland 

 and Roanoke Synclines farther to the southeast. At Glen- 

 ville, Gilmer County, it forms a cliff in the hills south of the 

 Little Kanawha River, arid is particularly noticeable along 

 the Dekalb-Center District Line, one mile and a half south- 

 west of the town where it forms great stone pillars, or "rock 

 cities," capping some of the hill tops, as illustrated by Plates 

 XI and XII. 



In Chapter IV the W T aynesburg Sandstone is noted in 

 the sections for Baldwin, Bealls Mills, Bennett, Brownsville, 

 Burnsville, Camden, Cedarville, Churchville, Conings, Copley, 

 Coxs Mills, Gaston, Gillooly, Glenville, Latonia, Lorentz, 

 Newberne, Roanoke, Sand Fork, Stouts Mills, Standingstone 

 Run, Tanner, Troy and Vadis. 



The Waynesburg Sandstone was once quarried on the 

 land of A. N. West, at the Glenville-Center District Line, 1.3 

 miles southward from Glenville. Here the ledge is massive, 



