MIDDLE AND UPPER DEVONIAN OF ROMNEY REGION 21 



The high cliff of Oriskany sandstone at the eastern end of the 

 gorge is shown in Fig. 2. By the roadside not far west of the east- 

 ern end of Mill Creek Mountain Gap are layers of blue limestone 

 interstratified with black argillaceous shales weathering to drab 

 or brownish color. There are some fossils in the limestones, but 

 they are infrequent. Along the road through this gap Dr. Kindle 

 reported approximately 100 feet of drab shale with some calcareous 

 bands succeeding the Oriskany sandstone, carrjdng an Onondaga 



Fig. 2. — Eastern end of Mill Creek Mountain Gap, southwest of Romney, West 

 Virginia. The steep cliff is composed of Oriskany sandstone. 



fauna, and these basal shales of the Romney formation he corre- 

 lated with the Onondaga of New York.^ 



Dr. Kindle further stated that: "The black shale representing 

 the Marcellus is well exposed on the opposite side of the South 

 Branch of Potomac River and appears to be barren. A Httle 

 higher up the hill to the eastward on the west side of Romney the 

 black fissile shale is succeeded by oUve to gray slightly sandy shale 

 with Hamilton fossils."^ 



' United States Geological Survey, Bulletin 508, p, 41. 

 ^ Log. cit. 



