West Virginia 161 



Feet. Inches. Feet 



1. Black Flint 7 to 12 



2. Shales 1 to 25 



3. Cannelton or Stockton coal bed 



4. Shales and sandstone 75 to 100 



5. Coalburg coal bed ... 



6. Shales, massive sandstone 75 



7. Winnifrede coal bed 



8. Shales, sandstone with thin coal beds 200 to 250 



9. Cedar- Grove coal bed 



10. Shales 50 to 75 



11. Campbells Creek limestone 1 



12. Shale, sandstone 40 to 50 



13. Campbells Creek coal bed 



14. Shales, sandstone with Brownstown coal bed . . 75 to 100 



15. Stockton cement 2 6 



16. Shales 45 to 50 



17. Eagle coal bed 



18. Shales , 20 



19. Little Eagle coal bed 



20. Shale, sandstone 55 



21. Eagle limestone 1 



22. Shale, sandstone 120 



23. Siliceous limestone 1 



27. Interval 100 



to the Nuttall sandstone. As will be seen, the extent of variation in the 

 intervals exceeds greatly the figures given in the table. 



There is little of interest below the Eagle limestone of I. C. White. 

 Several thin coal beds are in the interval, but they are not present in 

 some of the sections, though some of them may be represented by black 

 shales at several horizons. The Eagle limestone, commonly known as 

 the " black marble," is black, more or less carbonaceous, blocky, impure, 

 with cone-in-cone structure, and is richly fossiliferous, as are the shales 

 inclosing it. 



The " Eagle " coal bed of I. C. White, mined just east from the Fay- 

 ette-Kanawha line, passes under the Kanawha at a short distance west 

 from that line, but is brought up again by a gentle anticline. It is evi- 

 dently the bed on Smithers creek referred to by Rogers as 90 feet below 

 the " Thick " coal bed and separated by yellow shales from a richly fos- 

 siliferous limestone. Like the " Little Eagle " below, it is a soft, coking 

 coal, with no trace of splint. 



The Stockton or Cannelton cement bed, at most 50 feet above the 

 Eagle coal bed, and 2 feet 6 inches thick, is not always a continuous 

 bed, but sometimes occurs in lenticular masses, separated by 1 to 10 

 feet. It has cone-in-cone structure and is apparently non-fossiliferous. 



