WEST VIRGINIA NORTH OF KANAWHA RIVER 187 



Feet 



11. Coalbed 5 



12. Sandstone, pebbly below 56 



13. Brown shale 24 



14. Coalbed 2 



15. White shale 18 



16. Coal bed 2 



17. White shale 13 



18. Sandstone 40 



19. Black shale 35 



20. Coal bed 3 



21. Shale, brown, black 43 



22. Sandstone 25 



23. Black shale 10 



24. Sandstone 55 



25. Shale, mostly black 45 



in all, 538 feet to the Lower Carboniferous. The Roaring Creek sand- 

 stone seems to have disappeared, and the black slate at 45 feet below 

 the Stockton is apparently the coal bed number 4 of the last section. 

 The mass of sandstone below that coal bed is no longer continuous, and 

 coal beds are present at 142, 162, 247, 267, and 357 feet below the Stock- 

 ton. The Campbells Creek bed is that at 357 feet. It is very clear that 

 the great Lower Pottsville of the Kanawha region and southward has 

 almost disappeared. In this record there remain only 135, in the other 

 only 152 feet, to represent the 1,400 feet at Nuttallburg. Numbers 6 to 

 the bottom are the Pottsville of western Pennsylvania, which may be 

 divided thus : 



Number 6 is the Homewood sandstone. 

 Numbers 9 and 11 are in the Mercer coal group. 

 Number 12 is the Upper Connoquenessing sandstone. 

 Numbers 14 and 16 are in the Quakertown shales. 

 Number 18 is the Lower Connoquenessing sandstone. 

 Number 20, the Campbells Creek coal bed, is the Sharon coal bed. 

 Number 22 is the Sharon sandstone. 



Descending the Valley river, one comes to Moatsville, on the border 

 of Taylor county, where the Stockton coal bed is at 10 feet above a 

 massive pebbly sandstone ; and at Webster, in Taylor county, about 

 5 miles west from Moatsville, the section is * 



Feet. Inches 



1. Pittsburg coal bed 



2. Interval 308 



3. Ames limestone 1 



4. Shales 193 



* I. C White : Vol. ii, pp. 232, 297, 356. 



