184: J. J. STEVENSON — CARBONIFEROUS OF APPALACHIAN BASIN 



But before returning to consideration of those records, a record should 

 be given which was obtained on the Upshur-Lewis border, about 6 miles 

 west from Buckhannon and about 15 miles north from Wildcat, for this 

 illustrates the great change which has taken place between southern 

 Upshur and the line of Buckhannon. The measurements are reported 

 by Doctor White upon the authority of Mr F. H. Oliphant.* 



Feet 



1 . Pittsburg coal bed 



2. Interval 225 



3. Red rock, soft 125 



4. Shales 325 



5. Sandstone 30 ~| 



Slate and shell 20 [ 80 



Sandstone 30 j 



6. [Stockton'] coal bed 12 



7. Sandstone. 20 



Slate 13 



Sandstone 30 )■ 



Slate , 5 



Sandstone 5 _ 



8. Coal bed 5 



9. Sandstone 95 



10. Shales 68 



11 . Sandstone 15 



1 2. Limestone, pale brown 17 



13. Pebbly sandstone 20 



14. Black slate 10 



15. Sandstone, gray, hard 45 



16. Black slate and blue " limestone " 75 



17. Sandstone, gray, hard 50 



18. Limestone 10 



19. Sandstone, white, yellow, hard 150 



to the Lower Carboniferous red shale. The interval from Pittsburg to 

 Stockton is 755 feet, if the distance of the Pittsburg above the well curb 

 was given accurately ; this is about 30 feet more than in southern Lewis. 

 The interval from the Stockton coal bed to Lower Carboniferous is 630 

 feet. On the Upshur- Randolph border, 10 miles southeast from Buck- 

 hannon, the Lower Pottsville is approximately 500 feet thick, while here, 

 only 15 miles away toward the northwest, the total thickness of Kanawha 

 and Lower Pottsville is less than 650 feet. The coal bed within the great 

 sandstone mass is evidently the same with that seen at Alexander. No 

 trace remains of lower beds except the black slate at about 300 feet below 

 the Stockton, which may represent the Campbells Creek. The coal bed, 

 number 8, has been seen in other sections farther south, and it is shown 



I. C. White : West Virginia, vol. i, p. 255 ; vol. ii, p. 443. 



