W. M. Fontaine — Conglomerate Series of West Virginia. 



Coal system ; at bottom interstratifications of coal and elate, 



with one seam one foot thick ; (coal No. 5), and on top, 



flags passing into firm sandstones. Good plant impressions 



occur here. Thickness, 80 feet. 

 Olive marlites, 40 feet. 

 Massive firm gray sandstones, 50 feet. 

 Coal No. 4, not fully exposed, given as 2| feet thick. 

 Finn gray flags and sandstones, 90 feet. 

 Coal system, coal No. 3 ; at bottom interstratifications of thin 



coals and strata ; on top, shales, flags and sandstones, 80 



feet. 

 Gray sandstones, 75 feet. 

 Ferruginous limestone, 2 feet. 

 Variegated marlites, 40 feet. 

 Bright red shales and marlites, 30 feet. 

 Coal system, coal No. 2, consisting of coal 8 inches, slate 2^ 



feet, coal 8 inches, sandstone 8 feet, and at bottom coal and 



slate 1 foot; total =13 feet. 

 Olive and reddish sandstones, passing below into olive marl- 



Under the lower conglomerate is found i 

 which the following is a section determined mainly at Quinm- 

 mont, where the strata are more fully exposed. 

 Transition Series at Quinnimont. 

 2. Black fissile slates and shales, 20 feet. 



1. Thinly laminated gray flags and calcareous shales, with 

 drifted leaves of Lepidodendra near the base ; and near the 

 top having numerous impressions of marine shells, while i 



top it passes into carbonaceous shales with strmgs 

 il, leaves of Lepidodendra and other impressions t 

 ch obscured for determination, 50 feet. Total =70. 



To complete the section of the strata exposed in the vicmity 

 of Quinnimont, I give below a section of so much of the 

 Umbral series as is to be seen there. 



Section of the Umbral Series at Quinnimont. 

 3. Variegated marlites with some nodular limestone, 70 feet. 

 2. Gray calcareous sandstone, 20 feet. 

 1. Bright red shales, seen 50 feet. Total =140 feet. 

 Some of the above mentioned strata merit a more particular 

 description, which I will now give. . 



I make in this place no further mention of the remnant or 

 the Lower Productive coals found in this vicinity, but refer to 

 my former paper, where some account was given of their 



