west Virginia 171 



Feet 



1 . Sandstone 130 



2. Shale, light and white 81 



3. White sandstone 112 



4. Shelly slate 55 



in all, 378 feet. It is clear that the loss westward is wholly in the lower 

 portion, for this section coincides with the upper portion at Dingess ; 

 but there is no trace here of the Dingess section below the upper third 

 of number 15. Doctor White identifies the " Dingess " coal bed with 

 that at Warfield, so that number 11 is the Eagle. The interval below it 

 to the Sharon sandstone decreases almost 100 feet, while that between 

 Campbells Creek and Winnifrede increases almost 100 feet, the interval 

 from Sharon sandstone to Winnifrede remaining practically the same — 

 622 feet at Warfield, 648 feet at Dingess. 



The record of a boring in southern Lincoln county about 10 miles 

 northeast from Dingess shows a section of the Lower Pottsville differing 

 in composition though resembling in succession that at Dingess.* 



Feet 



1. Sandstone 175 



2. Blue shale 107 



3. Sandstone 403 



4. Shale, sandstone 131 



5. Sandstone 182 



6. Blue shale 18 



in all, 1,016 feet. A trace of the coal bed, number 17 at Dingess, is 

 found in 4 feet of black shale underlying the sandstone number 3. The 

 shales have increased at the expense of the sandstones. The decrease 

 in total thickness from Fayette county to this Lincoln locality, 40 miles 

 westward, is barely 400 feet, less than half as much as in the same dis- 

 tance northwestward along the Kanawha river. The line of abrupt 

 change lies very little west from the line passing through this locality 

 and Dingess, which should extend into Floyd county of Kentucky. 

 This is shown by the record of a boring reported by Mr Campbell from 

 southern Wayne county, about 10 miles northwest from Dingess and 15 

 miles west from the Lincoln County well : f 



Feet 



1. Slate 41 



2. Coal bed 4 



3. Slate and rock 327 



4. Coal bed 6 



5. Slate and sandstone 264 



* I. C White : West Virginia Geol. Survey, vol. i, p. 280. 



fM. R. Campbell : U. S. Geol. Survey folios, Huntingdon, 1900. 



