340 Evans on the Oil-producing uplift of W. Virginia. 
both extremities of the line. At the northern and southern 
ends of what I have designated as the middle segment, a little . 
north of the Northwestern ene — and a little south 
of Hughes river, the subsidence of the eastern and western axes 
becomes somewhat sudden a coaced. Both however can be 
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river, and southward across the headwaters of Standing Stone 
ereek to within seven miles of Burning Springs. The western 
— seems to extend a little the. both ways, than the eastern. 
en asserte 
middle leona of this uplift so 
narrows down toward both ends 
that the opposite slopes actually 
come together, thus enclosing an 
insular space, in the form of a 
double convex lens. <A careful 
examination will show that such 
is not the fact; so far from it 
that toward their extremities the 
eastern and western axes actu- 
ally diverge, as one vaher an- 
other of the inner strata of the 
slopes sink to a lower inclination. 
B 
exhibits only a simple anticlinal 
or flexure, whose axis is the pro- 
longation of what has been called 
the 1 middle axis. Strictly speak- 
ing, these are not the extreme 
_— of the uplift; it has been 
in a diuninishing wave 
miles across both rivers; 
‘ead taeotiahly ita Selals length 
is as much as 50 miles. It is Bs. w.—Burning Spring Shiga 
a ac toward both ends, by ¢. H. W.—Californ ene 
other and minor flexures, ap- GF. —Gales Fork Wells. 
proximately parallel with it ee ae Wells 
At nearly all points along this Tittle Kanawha riv 
uplift where a thorough test has ae NS = aca ‘Wells. 
made, on the lines before 6 R Ho rier Wells. 
indicated, oil has been found in ae Ween ae rina Railroad 
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oe quantity. The principal 7 _Northwest Virginia Turnpike. 
rm 
segment are at nee anes s on the Little Kanawha, and at 
