WEST VIRGINIA NORTH OF KANAWHA RIVER 181 



coal bed is 450 feet below the Stockton and 120 feet above the Nuttall 

 (Sharon) sandstone. 



The Black flint comes up from the bed of Elk river at Q,ueens shoals, 

 20 miles northeast from Charleston, and on the border of Kanawha 

 and Clay counties, with the Upper Freeport (Mason) coal bed at 175 feet 

 and the number 5 Block (Mahoning) coal bed at 80 feet above it. Doc- 

 tor White's section at Clay court-house, 12 miles farther northeast, 

 shows* 



Feet 



Stockton coal bed 3 



Massive sandstone and concealed 100 



Coalburg coal bed 6 



Sandstone and concealed 15 



The Coalburg bed, between two massive sandstones, is mined at Clay, 

 where it is largely splint, as on the Kanawha, and contains the charac- 

 teristic " nigg.erhead " slate. The Stockton is thin and slaty here, but 

 in most of this region it is very thick and broken into numerous benches 

 by variable partings. 



Ten miles northeast, at one and a half miles below Sutton, in Braxton 

 county, a well record is * 



Feet 



1 . Conductor 50 



2. Blue slate .30 



3. Sandstone 80 



4. Coal bed 6 



5. White sandstone 230 



6. Black slate 50 



7. Gray sandstone 100 



8. Black slate 20 



9. Brown limestone - 75 



10. Black slate 30 



1 1 . Gray sandstone 50 



12. Black slate 75 



13. Gray sandstone 20 



14. White limestone 50 



15. Black slate 40 



16. Sandstone 50 



17. Blue slate 60 



18. Gray limestone 55 



19. Blue slate 54 



20. Yellow sandstone 25 



21. Shale 40 



22. Sandstone 210 



23. Slate 30 



*I. C White : W T est Virginia, vol. ii, pp. 239, 456. 

 XXIV— Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 15. 1903 



