462 W. M. Fontaine—“ Great Conglomerate” on New River. 
The thickness of the series on the Kanawha is, by those best 
acquainted with the field, taken to be 950’. Rogers calls atten- 
tion to the great diminution in the amount of shales and argil- 
the Mahoning, to be 215’ thick, while the next one below this 
has the thickness of 200’. The only important shale of the 
series lies under these sandstones, having the thickness of 40’, 
but it is much mingled with inter-stratifications of flaggy sand- 
stone. The lowest beds of the series are coarse, heavy sand- 
stones, where they overlie the succeeding formation below the 
Falls, but this is apparently not the case farther to the eastward, 
on New River, where they have been principally removed by 
denudation. 
ably above this base, and hence the lowest rocks are not given 
here. To complete the section, we should add a portion of the 
strata measured at Sewell Mountain on New River. Even 
then there exists an unknown interval, there being no means 
of connecting the two measurements. The coal seams on Paint 
Creek occur in the richest portion of the Kanawha coal field. 
These measurements are the most extended that have been 
made in this section. For the Paint Creek section, and that at 
with this region renders him the best authority in matters con: 
i Greek commenced 
at a point 40’ above the level of the Kanawha. The following 
Top of Hill. Thi 
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