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the overling shales, reaching in some cases even to the Quakertown 

 coal bed, are arenaceous limestone and in contrast with those in the 

 underlying shales. The coal bed is below drainage in most of eastern 

 Morgan and in most of Magoffin (south and east of Morgan), but the 

 reversal of dip brings it to the surface and eventually far above drain- 

 age ; so that the Sharon sandstone and the underlying shales are shown 

 in western Johnson, the former being 100 feet thick and overlying a 20- 

 inch coal bed. The Sharon sandstone shows its characteristic cross- 

 bedding. The Sharon coal bed in Johnson and Floyd (southeast from 

 Johnson) is from 50 to 60 feet above the sandstone, from 2 to 5 feet 

 thick, and yields at most mines a coal of remarkable excellence. At 

 one locality on Levisa fork of Big Sandy in eastern Johnson a thin can- 

 nel was seen at 50 feet below the Sharon bed. Mr Lyon found the same 

 bed in southwest Johnson at about 70 feet below the Sharon and rest- 

 ing on sandy shales. He noted there the limestone concretions below 

 the Sharon coal bed, which he finds characteristic of the horizon all the 

 wa}' to the Big Sandy river at the West Virginia line. 



The relation of the Sharon coal bed to the upper beds is shown in a 

 section obtained by Professor Crandall in the southern part of Morgan, 

 near the line of Wolfe county, which shows the Carter County condi- 

 tions and prepares one for those seen in Wolfe and other counties at the 

 south and east : 



1. Sandstone, shale and shaly sandstone 



2. Concealed 



3. Cannel, number 4 [Tionesta~\ 1 to 



4. Sandstone and shale, imp. exp .......... 



5. Coal bed number 3 [ Mercer~\ 



5. Concealed 



7. Sandstone 



8. Concealed 



9. Sandstone 



10. Shale 



11. Coal bed 2 A, of which the cannel is 2 feet 



12. Imperfectly exposed 



13. Coal bed number 2, with cannel 2 feet 



14. Sandstone and shale 



15. Coal bed number 1 [Sharon] in bed of creek 



The Ferriferous limestone, if present, should be in the hilltop, where 

 fragments of iron ore are found, but apparently the limestone was not 

 seen by Professor Crandall southward beyond the middle of the county, 

 to which he had followed it from the Ohio river across Greenup, Carter, 

 and Elliott counties. The Mercer coal bed is approximately 125 feet 

 below it at this place. The interval between the Sharon and Mercer bed, 



jet. 



Inches 



30 







50 







2 







42 







23 







18 







20 







20 







5 







4 



7 



50 







4 



11 



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