80 J. J. STEVENSON CARBONIFEEOUS OF APPALACHIAN BASIN 



Feet Inches 



1. Red and variegated shale 30 



2. Massive sandstone 20 



3. Red shale and concealed 30 



- 4. Coarse massive pebbly sandstone 40 



[ 5. Sandy shale 10 



6. Concealed , 90 



7. Massive sandstone 15 



8. Concealed in shaft 125 



9. Pittsburg coal bed 5 8 



Feet Indies 



Coal 2 6 



Clay 2 



Coal 3 



The coarse pebbly sandstone is that which made its appearance in the 

 Ohio river bed at the southern point of Washington county and is evi- 

 - dently that noted in the Parkersbnrg record. Where it first appears it 

 is 25 feet under a coal blossom. Near Long Bottom, in Meigs county, 

 25 miles below Parkersburg, a coal blossom is said to have been seen 

 imder this sandstone, and at 7 miles east from Antiquity a thin bed is 

 reported at 40 feet above it. Six miles below Antiquity this sandstone 

 is 250 feet above the Pittsburg and no trace of coal appears in the inter- 

 val. At Pomeroy the Pittsburg coal is above water and shows : 



Feet Inches 



Coal 1 



^ Clay 2 



Coal i 



Coaly shale 1 2 



There, as throughout Meigs county, a great sandstone comes down upon 

 the Pittsburg or is separated from it at most by 15 feet of shale; it is 

 from 60 to 70 feet thick. 



The higher coal beds are to all intents wanting, as in southern 

 Washington county. The Pittsburg reappears at perhaps 16 miles below 

 Parkersburg, where it has been found in an oil boring; thence it in- 

 creases and becomes of importance at Antiquity, whence it is a workable 

 bed into Gallia county. 



The great sandstone shown at Antiquity is readily traceable along 

 the Ohio from its first appearance at the southern edge of Washington 

 county. As described by Doctor White, it is coarse and massive, with 

 pebbly streaks containing quartz pebbles at times an inch in diameter. 

 No reference is made to it by Professor Andrews in his report on Athens 

 county and none of his sections reaches to it, the longest being only 



