STRATIGRAPHY OF OHIO WAVERLY FORMATIONS 68 1 



Conditions of outcrop, and limited observation, however, have 

 not permitted the tracing of this passage farther in Licking 

 County. The nature of the Black Hand horizon at Granville, 

 two or three miles yet farther west, is not known, but a further 

 disappearance of the sandstones is anticipated. In fact, so firm 

 is this conviction that no hesitation has been felt in adopting the 

 name Granville for the shale province although very little of the 

 Cuyahoga was seen by the writer in that vicinity. Four or five 

 miles yet farther to the westward on Moot's Run, the fossiliferous 

 beds of the Cuyahoga, there largely a shale but with considerable 

 sandstone, furnish an excellent collecting ground; whether they 

 are Black Hand, shale facies, or belong to the underlying Raccoon 

 member is not yet determined. 



Raccoon member.— -Below the Black Hand near Newark there 

 are some 20 or 30 feet of sandy or clay shales with numerous thin 

 sandstones, sometimes quite fossiliferous; the remainder of the 

 Cuyahoga, here and other points known to the writer, is below 

 drainage and is commonly reported as shale by the drillers, but an 

 occasional more careful record shows that the next underlying 200 

 feet carry many beds of sandstone, sometimes 3 to 6 feet thick, 

 with thicker shale beds. The lowermost 200 feet, more or less, 

 appear to consist almost wholly of shale. In 1878, when Hicks 

 proposed the name Black Hand, he used the name Raccoon for the 

 shales between it and the Sunbury shale. When, later, the central 

 Ohio and northern Ohio Waverly formations were correlated, it ap- 

 peared that this term was synonymous with Cuyahoga and it was 

 dropped. It may be brought forward, temporarily at least, to 

 designate that almost unknown thickness of shales and sandstones 

 below the Black Hand member. So little is known of these at 

 present in the Granville facies that it cannot yet be safely urged 

 as a permanent formational name. 



The Berne member. — Little need be said of this member in this 

 province. It is a pebble bed of essentially the same composition 

 as over the two conglomerate provinces, except that beds of finer- 

 grained sandstone are frequently intercalated. Between the two 

 conglomerate facies there is an interval of 20 miles in northern 

 Fairfield and southern Licking counties across which its presence 



