228 CHARLES S. PROS SEE 



Evertts & Co. quarry for glass sand. The following section was 

 measured at this locality from the level of Licking River to the 

 top of the cliff. 



SECTION OF SOUTHERN BANK OF LICKING RIVER AT EVERTTS & CO. • 



QUARRY 



Thickness Total thickness 

 feet feet 



No. 6. Till - - - 7 101 



5. Thin, irregular bedded, drab or bluish sand- 

 stone and bluish argillaceous shales. In 

 places at the bottom is a 3-inch clay shale 

 resting on the massive conglomerate with a 

 sandstone to conglomerate layer above. 

 Lower part of the Logan sandstofie -22 94 



4. A coarse conglomerate stratum at the top of 

 the conglomerate which in places is 1 1 inches 

 thick. The top of the Black Hand conglom- 

 erate -------- 1 72 



3. Gray to drab coarse grit, which in places is a 

 conglomerate that is worked for glass sand. 

 This forms the upper part of the main cliff - 21 71 



2. Coarse grit and conglomerate to the base of 



the cliff at the Crusher - - 16 50 



1. Mostly covered bank below the Crusher but 

 all in the conglomerate as shown by expo- 

 sures a little farther down the river. Level 

 of Licking River.- - - 34 34 



6. Logan formation (sandstone) was named by Professor 

 Andrews in 1870 from outcrops in Hocking county near Logan, 1 

 and was stated to overlie the conglomerate at Black Hand and to 

 extend down the Licking Valley " to a point between Pleasant Val- 

 ley and Dillons Falls." 2 This division was named the Licking 

 shales by Professor Hicks, who states that they are well developed 

 in the hills bordering Licking River from Newark to Black Hand, 

 IOO to 1 50 feet in thickness, and " lie 70 to 80 feet above the water 

 level, forming the middle of the slope of these hills, the base 

 being composed of the massive Black Hand conglomerate and 

 the upper slopes and summit of the various strata of the Coal 



1 Geol. Surv. Ohio, Part II, pp. 76, 79. 2 Ibid., p. 79. 



