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The Canal pike crosses Stony Creek at a point eight miles 
southeast of Chillicothe and eleven miles northeast of Waverly. 
A short distance below this highway bridge the viaduct of the 
Norfolk & Western Railroad crosses the creek, and on its 
southern bank a few rods above the viaduct is an interesting 
Fic. 2.—Contact of Berea grit and Sunbury shale on Stony Creek, Ross county. 
The thin, even layers of shale at the base of the Sunbury project beyond the Berea 
grit. 
outcrop of the Sunbury shale, Fig. 2. The following section 
of the bank was made at this locality: 
STONY CREEK SECTION. 
Total 
Thickness thickness 
No. feet. feet. 
4. A projecting ledge of thin bedded brownish sandstone occurs 
below the highway; the remaining portion of the bank covered 
to the road~ - - - - = - - - - - A 45+ 
3. All thin black shale, in no particular respect differing from the 
Sunbury shale of central and northern Ohio. This outcrop forms 
the middle part of the bank just below the highway as it goes 
over the ridge south of the N. & W. viaduct. The Sudbury shale 
