WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. l6<) 



DESCRIPTION OF FORMATIONS. 



THE HOMEWOOD SANDSTONE. 



The Homewood Sandstone, named by I. C. White from 

 its outcrop in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, occurs above 

 drainage along the Little Kanawha in southern Lewis, but 

 good exposures of it are not frequent. It is usually gray and 

 massive, with shaly streaks. In Chapter IV, its presence is 

 noted above drainage in the section for Bablin, where it is 25 

 feet thick, and in that for Wildcat, where 30 feet of it is ex- 

 posed. It is also noted in numerous other sections of the same 

 Chapter, compiled from oil well records in the regions where 

 it lies underground. 



THE KANAWHA BLACK FLINT. 



The Kanawha Black Flint of Rogers,* named from its oc- 

 currence in the Great Kanawha Valley, was definitely located 

 in southern Lewis along Glady Creek, 1.1 miles north of Bab- 

 lin, where it occurs along the east bank of the creek at the 

 ford and is about 20 feet above drainage. Its position in the 

 measures is shown by the section for Bablin, published in 

 Chapter IV, and it is illustrated by Plate XXIV. At this 

 point, it is 0' 6" thick, dark, silicious, and contains minute 

 crystals of gypsum. It has an abundant marine fauna, con- 

 taining Orbiculoidea, Spirifer, and several other forms com- 

 mon to the same horizon in the Great Kanawha Valley. Dr. 

 Price has made a collection from this place and the results of 

 his studies are published in Chapter XIII. 



Fossils were not observed at any other point where the 

 Flint horizon occurs above drainage, although diligent search 

 was made both by Dr. Price and the writer. The position of 

 the Flint is noted in the section for Cleveland, published in 

 Chapter IV, where some dark shale was found at a fire clay 

 spring. 175 feet below the Lo\ver Kittanning Coal. 



*W. B. Rogers, Fifth Annual Report of Virginia; 1839. 



