WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 147 



The Pittsburgh and West Virginia Gas Company Quarry, 

 located in Freemans Creek District, at its Reed Pumping Sta- 

 tion, on Left Fork of Freemans Creek, 1.3 miles northeast of 

 Freemansburg, shows the Morgantown Sandstone to be 25 

 feet thick, at an elevation of 1050' B. The stone is gray, 

 weathering to brown, medium hard and medium coarse. The 

 quarry is about 100 feet long and extends into the hill 30 feet. 

 This stone was used for concrete aggregate in the founda- 

 tions of the pump station. 



The Granville Radabaugh Quarry, located on Skin Creek, 

 in Skin Creek District, 1.5 miles northwest of Vandalia, shows 

 the following section : 



Feet. 



Sandstone, massive, brown, conglom- ] 

 erate .10' j 



Concealed and greenish yellow, sandy [ Morgantown.. 40 

 shale 15 j 



Sandstone, shaly 15 J 



Shale, sandy 16 



Coal, Elk Lick, (1090' B.) 4 



The shale parting appearing here in the middle of the 

 sandstone was frequently observed in southern Lewis, that 

 portion of the stone lying above it being frequently conglom- 

 eratic. At this place the upper ledge has been quarried on a 

 small scale for bridge abutments. 



THE ORLANDO LIMESTONE. 



Along the Coal and Coke Railway between Orlando and 

 Burnsville a shaly impure limestone occurs just above the Elk 

 Lick Coal that the writer was at first inclined to consider the 

 Ames, although in physical appearance and fossil forms it 

 lacked many of the characteristic features of the latter forma- 

 tion. The limestone is thicker than the Ames and does not 

 have its dark, carbonaceous appearance, and the fossil forms 

 were pronounced by Dr. White and Dr. Price to be of prob- 

 able brackish or fresh water origin, some small shells and a few 

 fish teeth being the only ones found. The limestone is usually 

 about three feet thick, gray in color and somewhat shaly. All 

 doubt as to the true position of the Ames in this region has 

 been removed by the studies of Ray V. Hennen in 1915, who 



