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213 feet, is very nearly the same as in southern Carter, where the 

 Quakertown beds are shown. 



The shales overlying the Sharon sandstone, with their characteristic 

 concretions, are shown along the branches of Licking river in southern 

 Magoffin county, but Professor Crandall gives few detailed statements 

 respecting the relations of the higher beds. The Sharon sandstone is 

 exposed in Johnson county along Paint creek in the central portion, as 

 well as along the forks of Blaine creek in the northern portion. The 

 splits of the Quakertown persist in the sections of Johnson and Flo} r d 

 counties, but the lower appears to be the more regular. In most of 

 Carter,as well as Lawrence, the Quakertown is a bituminous coal, but in 

 southern Carter it becomes cannel and continues as such into Morgan, 

 and thence into several of the eastern and southern counties. 



The Mercer coal bed in Johnson, Floyd, and Martin counties is broken 

 by numerous partings and at times attains the thickness of 10 feet, in- 

 cluding the partings. The Tionesta changes into splint toward the east, 

 but the Quakertown remains cannel. The section on the border of John- 

 son, Floyd, and Martin counties, as compiled by Professor Crandall, is 



Feet. Inches 



1. Sandstone 30 



2. Cannel 



3. Sandstone, etcetera 187 



4. Coal bed 6 



5. Clay, sandstone, and iron ore 46 



6. Coal bed , 1 6 



7. Sandstone and shale 25 



8. Coal bed with partings, number 8 10 



9. Interval 88 



10. Cannel number 2A (?) 



11 . Shale and sandstone 50 



12. Coal bed number 2 2 



1 3. Interval 63 



14. Coal bed number 1 3 8 



15. Shale and sandstone. . 15 



As this is a compiled section, the intervals are not exact for any one 

 locality. 



The Sharon is the Prestonburg bed of Floyd county, where a thin coal 

 bed is present at 20 feet below it. This thin bed was seen at Paintsville 

 at 35 feet, and the Sharon sandstone is above drainage at that place. 

 The same bed is present elsewhere in Johnson county at varying distances 

 below the Sharon bed.* 



Mr Lyon ran aline of sections across Estill, Wolfe, Magoffin, Johnson, 



*A. R. Crandall : Geology of Morgan, Johnson, Magoffin, and Floyd Counties, new series, vol. vi, 

 pp. 323, 325, 326, 330, 334, sees. 2, 4, 6, 17, 18, 20. 



