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J. J. STEVENSON CARBONIFEROUS OF APPALACHIAN BASIN 



burg as 303 to 306 feet; another, father east, shows 348, while along 

 the West Virginia border the interval varies from 348 to 363 feet.* 



THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRaiNIA 



Passing over into that portion of West Virginia which lies between 

 the Pennsylvania line and the Ohio river, one finds the Pittsburg coal 

 bed mined at Lazearsville on the Ohio river, in Brooke county, about 

 30 miles north from Wheeling and 5 miles south from Steubenville, 

 Ohio, but it certainly extends in patches for several miles farther north. 

 The full section must be present on Buffalo creek in this count}'', since 

 at the Pennsylvania line the Pittsburg coal bed is below the bed of 

 the stream. Parther south along the Ohio some sections are available 

 in the vicinity of Wheeling. Two of them, one at Wheeling and the 

 other between 3 and 5 miles east from that city, give: 



9. 

 10. 

 11. 

 12. 

 13. 

 14. 

 15. 

 16. 

 17. 

 18. 



Feet Indies 



Sandstone 



Limestone 



Shale 



Waynesburg coal bed 



Clay, sandy shale 



Uniontown coal bed 



Shale, thin limestone on top. . 33 



Alternating limestone and shale 115 



Coal bed 1 



Fireclay, thin sandstone 6 



Coal and shale 1 



Clay and sandstone 14 



Coal and shale 1 



Limestone and shale 24 



Coal ^d shale 1 



Limestone and shale 20 



Shale 6 



Pittsburg coal bed. 7 



The Waynesburg is identified clearly, the overlying limestone char- 

 acterizes the Cassville shales of the Dunkard in much of western Wash- 

 ington county, and the Uniontown limestone is present, though thin, 

 while higher in the hill appear the coals of the Dunkard in proper suc- 

 cession. Doctor White finds this bed at Wheeling 3 feet thick and 

 356 feet above the Pittsburg; the interval at 5 miles east is 366 feet. 

 The Uniontown coal bed is not shown in the second section, but it 



* J. J. Stevenson: (K), pp. 227, 228, 230, 231, 238, 248, 249, 258, 259, 260, 270, 274, 

 275, 277, 280, 287, 289, 292, 308, 317, 322. 



I. C. White: (K), p. 268; (Q), p. 23. Geology of West Virginia, ia, pp. 121, 122, 

 126, 127, 128, 130, 132, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 293, 294. 



