134 STRATIGRAPHY THE CONEMAUGH SERIES. 



Thickness Total 

 Feet. Feet. 



Conemaugh Series (145') 



Concealed and sandy shale o **" 



Fire clay, Little Pittsburgh Coal horizon 1 



Shale, sandy JJ 250 



Sandstone, shaly, Connellsville ^ 



Shale, red 25 300 



Concealed to Leading Creek & 



The following section, arranged in descending order, was 

 measured with hand level up the hill immediately south of 

 Ireland : 



Ireland Section, Collins Settlement District. 



Thickness Total 



Feet. Feet. 



Concealed on hill top, mostly red shale, Clarks- 



burg 



35 35 



Sandstone, with conglomerate streaks, partly 



concealed in bluff, Morgantown 50 85 



Coal blossom, at opening, Elk Lick, (1376' L.) ... 85 85' 



Shale, gray, sandy 10 95 



Concealed, with sandstone fragments, Grafton 50 145 

 Shale, greenish and sandy, partly concealed, 



Ames 10 155 



Coal opening, fallen shut, (P. H. Crawford 

 Mine No. 226 on Map II, 1303' L.), Harlem, 



reported 3 158 73' 



Concealed 32 190 



Sandstone, partly concealed, Jane Lew 10 



Concealed 78 278 



Coal opening, Bakerstown, (1181' L.), thick- 

 ness concealed, supplied from opposite side 2 280 122' 



Concealed 28 308 



Sandstone 6 314 



Concealed 5 319 



Coal blossom, streak 319 



Concealed to Right Fork 16 335 



DESCRIPTION OF FORMATIONS. 



THE LOWER PITTSBURGH SANDSTONE. 



The Lower Pittsburgh Sandstone of White 2 , usually sepa- 

 rated by a thin bed of shale from the overlying Pittsburgh 

 Coal, is present generally throughout Lewis and Gilmer. It is 

 usually massive, gray, medium grained and medium hard. In 



C. White, Vol. II, W. Va. G. S., p. 244; 1903. 



