MONONGAHELA FORMATION 85 



at Proctor, 10 miles east, 120 to 125 feet below the Waynesburg A coal 

 bed. The Waynesburg seems to be wanting, but a sandstone answering 

 to the Gilboy horizon and extending upward to beyond the place of the 

 Waynesburg is present. 



The Pittsburg coal bed is persistent in eastern and northern Wetzel, 

 though evidently varying much in thickness, but in western Wetzel it is 

 extremely irregular, often represented only by black shale. There is 

 much sandstone above the Uniontown coal at Pine Grove as well as along 

 the Ohio river, but in the eastern part of the county the interval to the 

 place of the Waynesburg seems to carry mostly shale. Eed shales are 

 wanting at Pine Grove, but a detailed record at a few miles east shows 

 5 feet resting on the Pittsburg and 35 feet at 238 feet higher, under- 

 lying the place of the Uniontown coal bed. The Pine Grove boring 

 shows 88 feet of limestone in the Benwood interval, the Fishpot is repre- 

 sented by 11 feet of limestone and 14 feet of calcareous shale, while 

 limestone fills half the* interval from the Bedstone to the Pittsburg. The 

 other records give no trustworthy information respecting the limestones.* 



Eeturning now to the east, one finds the outcrop in the western third 

 of Taylor and Barbour counties and in eastern Harrison, where the 

 lower part of the formation is above drainage. The only available sec- 

 tion in the former counties shows no Wa5Tiesburg, Uniontown, or Se- 

 wickley, as their places are concealed, but a coal bed, probably the Eed- 

 stone, is at 33 feet above the Pittsburg, 5 feet thick and accompanied by 

 its limestone, 11 feet. A white limestone 5 feet thick and 175 feet above 

 the Pittsburg is thought by Doctor White to be the only representative 

 of the Benwood. A succession of sandstones beginning at 125 feet above 

 the Eedstone coal bed culminates in a massive rock, very pebbly at 458 

 feet above the Pittsburg, whose place is very uncertain. A section by 

 Mr J. L. Johnson at Clarksburg in Harrison county is : 



Feet Inches 



1. Massive sandstone Not measured 



2. Concealed and yellow shale 65 9 



3. Sandstone 25 



4. Concealed some limestone 80 



5. Sandstone and sandy shale 46 



6. Sewickley sandstone 40 



7. Shale 10 



8. Sewickley coal bed [Lower] 1 



9. Limestone [Fishpot] 9 



10. Concealed, shale, sandstone 31 



11. Redstone coal bed, slaty 3 



* I. C. White : Vol. i, 339, 340 ; vol. ia, pp. 177, 178, 187, 192, 196, 202 ; vol. 11, pp. 

 136, 139. Catalogue of West Virginia University, 1883-1884, p. 66. 

 J. E. Barnes : Cited in vol. ii, p. 131, 132. 



