DUNKARD FORMATION 119 



Here, for the first time, red beds are seen in the Dunkard, there being 

 in Donegal a mass, about 60 feet thick, resting on the Blacksville lime- 

 stone and extending above the Middle "Washington. At another exposure 

 a purely local bed, 15 feet thick, is at the place of the Franklin limestone. 



East and West Finley adjoin Greene county and the latter extends 

 to the West Virginia line at the west. In Morris township the Upper 

 Washington limestone is almost constantly in view from the east side 

 of the township until within about half a mile of the East Pinley line. 

 There the Nineveh sandstone is 180 feet above the Upper Washington, 

 and fragments of the Nineveh limestone were seen 35 to 40 feet louer, 

 while at a little way farther west the Nineveh coal bed was seen under 

 the sandstone. Chert appears in great abundance above the Nineveh 

 sandstone, but it was not found in place; it seems to belong somewhere 

 near the Limestone XII. 



Crossing into East Finley and descending to Hunter's fork of Wheel- 

 ing creek, one quickly reaches the Upper Washington limestone at little 

 more than 150 feet below the Nineveh limestone, and at half a mile far- 

 ther there is a coal bed 1 foot 6 inches thick and about 50 feet above 

 the lower limestone. This seems to be not far from the Pursley hori::on, 

 but, in view of the changing intervals southwardly, one is hardly justified 

 in making the correlation at present. The Middle Washington and 

 Blacksville limestones are exposed at a little way farther and remain 

 in sight to the west side of the township. The rapid fall of the stream 

 in West Finley brings the lower rocks into the section, and the Waynes- 

 burg coal bed is reached at a considerable distance east from the state 

 line. Exposures in the Finley townships are for the most pa'^t incom- 

 plete; the limestones are numerous and evidently not all of them are 

 persistent. It seems to be clear that in preparing his report on Gi-eene 

 and Washington counties Stevenson erred in some of the correlations. 



The highest limestone observed in place is coarse, dark on fresh 

 fracture, and weathering with a rough surface. It is the bed numbered 

 XL At the West Virginia line it is 211 to 220 feet above^ the Upper 

 Washington and it is exposed frequently on the west side of West Finley ; 

 it is reached again in the northwest part of the township and the adjacent 

 part of East Finley, where the interval is 234 to 240 feet and the lime- 

 stone rests on 50 feet of red shale, the Nineveh sandstone being absent. 

 As in the case of the lower interval, this decreases eastwardly, so that 

 on the east side of East Finley it is 200 feet, and at a mile or two 

 farther east, in Morris, Doctor White found it 195 feet above the Upper 

 Washington. The bed varies from 6 to 8 feet and gives a good strong 



