BEREA SANDSTONE IN ERODED CLEVELAND SHALE 769 



Other rock appears to be between the Berea sandstone and the mas- 

 sive Cleveland shale. 



The Berea sandstone narrows somewhat in its horizontal dimen- 

 sions as it descends toward the Cleveland shale beneath. Its 

 sides, though somewhat covered, present the appearance of the 

 sloping sides of a channel, such as is seen where the Berea sandstone 

 fills a channel in the eroded horizon of the Bedford shale. West 

 of the sandstone the lake sands cover the massive Cleveland 

 shale. 



One-half mile, slightly to the west of south from this Berea 

 sandstone on the lake shore, gray, moderately coarse-grained Berea 

 sandstone beds one inch to one foot thick outcrop from the bank on 

 the south side of the electric car Hne. The total height of the 

 exposure is 5-10 ft., and the horizontal distance about 100 ft. 

 The formation is dipping 6 degrees toward S., 18 degrees E., and 

 striking N. 72 degrees E. A few yards to the north, black, thin- 

 bedded Cleveland shale comes to the surface in the ditch beside 

 the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad track. The verti- 

 cal distance between the Berea and Cleveland outcrops is less than 

 10 ft. The exact contact is covered. 



South of this Berea sandstone outcrop, 100 yds., is an abandoned 

 Berea sandstone quarry, its bottom filled with water and debris. 

 The depth of the sandstone to the water is 20 ft. The pit is about 

 125 ft. square. The sandstone is gray, moderately coarse grained, 

 beds 8 ft. thick. The top 5-10 ft. of the formation are of thin- 

 bedded sandstone layers, capped by 1-3 ft. of clay. The amount 

 of area underlain by this Berea sandstone appears, from surface 

 indications (for save in the places mentioned the clay drift covers 

 the sandstone), to be 8-10 acres. 



Two miles , south of this sandstone, along the Lake Shore & 

 Michigan Southern Railroad tracks, the rock is entirely Cleveland 

 shale, and continues to be Cleveland shale until farther south we 

 get the overlying main body of Bedford shale and Berea sandstone. 

 The nearest portion of Berea sandstone to the Berea sandstone in 

 which the quarry is situated, and to that along the lake, is the 

 main body of the Berea formation 2 miles southeast of the quarry, 

 and 2f miles southeast of the Berea sandstone on Lake Erie. 



