BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 6, pp. 305-320 March 27, i895 



THE POTTSVILLE SERIES ALONG NEW RIVER, WEST 



VIRGINIA 



BY DAVID WHITE 



(Read before the Societij December 2S, ISOJf) 



CONTEXTS 



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Introiiuction 305 



Use of term " Pottsville " and formations included in " I*ottsville series" 306 



Purpose of this study 306 



Rapid differentiation of and change in floras durinj^ Pottsville time 307 



Stratifiraphy of the series 308 



General statement . 308 



Conglomerates of Piney Creek section 308 



Completion of series at Xuttall and Hawks Nest 309 



Number and position of coals mined on New river 310 



Quinnimont-Fire Creek horizon 310 



Position uf Sewell coal 311 



Paleontologic relations 312 



General statement 312 



Fossiliferous horizons 312 



Fossil plants near the lower conglomerate on Piney creek 31. '> 



P(K'ahontas coal on New river .';14 



Flora of the Quinnimont-Fire Creek stage and its aflinities 314 



Flora of the Sewell coal and its range .'JIG 



Fossil plants of the " Ilomcwood sandstone " 318 



Paleontologic relation of New River section to Sharon coal in Ohio 319 



I^pii valence of Pottsville sections 319 



Problem of correlati<jn of base of Pottsville series 320 



Introduction. 



This paper is intended to i)resent certain general conclusions reached 

 in the course of a preliminary study of the stratigraphy and ])aleon- 

 tology ()f the Pottsville series along New river in West Virginia. While 

 concerned mainly with paleontologic cornlations, it touches incidentally 



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