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has previously been noted or named in this interval. I. C. 

 White states that in the Morgantown and Fairmont region 

 few outcrops have been found where the Redstone Coal, Red- 

 stone Limestone, and Pittsburgh Sandstone, which directly 

 overlies the Pittsburgh Coal, occur in the same locality. 8 

 Later studies by Ray V. Hennen and the writer show that 

 this condition is general throughout the region where the Mo- 

 nongahela Series outcrops in Monongalia, Marion and Harri- 

 son, but in one Report 9 , the waiter observed near Monongah, 

 Marion County, the occurrence of the Redstone Coal, Red- 

 stone Limestone, Upper Pittsburgh Sandstone and Pittsburgh 

 Coal in the same hillside, leaving little doubt as to their rela- 

 tionship in that region, thus affording direct evidence on which 

 the general sections of Hennen 10 for the Monongahela Series 



There seems little doubt, therefore, that the sandstone 

 which crops in northeastern Lewis, between the Redstone and 

 Pittsburgh Coals, and above, instead of below, the Redstone 

 Limestone is a new horizon, distinct from the Upper Pitts- 

 burgh Sandstone of the Fairmont and Morgantown region, 

 and it will consequently be called the Weston Sandstone in 

 this Report. The position of the Weston Sandstone is well 

 illustrated by the short section published on page 127, describ- 

 ing an occurrence of the Redstone Limestone on the Tierney 

 Brothers property, along Town Run at the southeastern edge 

 of Weston. Here the Weston Sandstone consists of two sand 

 layers, each 10 feet thick, separated by a shale interval of 7 

 feet, making a total of 27 feet, the upper lens being shaly 

 while the lower one is greenish gray and harder. It has been 

 quarried here on a small scale but proved to be too shaly to 

 make durable building stone. 



In Lew r is County, the Weston Sandstone is found fre- 

 quently throughout the region where the Monongahela Series 

 outcrops, usually having a somewhat soft and shaly nature. 

 At Vadis, Freemans Creek District, it has been quarried along 

 Fink Creek, one-eighth mile west of the town, and used for 



I. C. White, Vol. II, W. Va. G. S., p. 163; 1903. 



"Monongalia-Marion-Taylor Kept., W. Va. G. S.. p. 142; 1913. 



"Ray V. Hennen, Doddridge-Harrison Kept.. W. Va. G. S., p. 179; 

 1912; and Monongalia-Marion-Taylor Kept., W. Va. G. S., p. 216; 1913. 

 were based. 



