DUNKARD FORMATION 131 



of the "coaly shales" in the Bellton record. The Washington coal 

 does not appear in any records here. In, Meade district, farther west, 

 where the Waynesburg is 380 to 290 feet above the Pittsburg, the 

 Washington is 110 to 120 feet higher and the highest bed of the Cameron 

 wells is 247 to 255 feet above the Waynesbnrg coal bed.* 



OHIO 



In the northern part of Jefferson county, Ohio, one finds near Knox- 

 ville a high knob retaining 78 feet of red and olive shales, above the 

 Waynesburg coal bed, but the locality is too far away from any other 

 exposure to admit of correlation. Farther south, in Mount Pleasant 

 township, 110 feet of Dunkard remain, for the most part ill exposed; 

 but in that as well as Smithfield township the Wa3Tiesburg A, evidently 

 very thin, is at 50 feet above the Waynesburg, the interval being filled 

 with sandstone, while sandy shale overlies the upper bed. Limestone is 

 wholly absent. In Belmont county, 7 miles southeast, an imperfect sec- 

 tion obtained almost opposite Wheeling shows the Washing-ton coal bed 

 at 95 feet above the Waynesburg and 4 to 6 feet thick. The Cassville 

 shale, 9 feet 6 inches thick, has 3 feet of limestone on top underlying 

 15 feet of Waynesburg sandstone. A section by Mr Henry JSTewton, at 

 1 mile farther down the river, shows a limestone outcrop at 30 feet 

 above the Washington, and at 90 feet there begins a mass of shaly sand- 

 stone streaked with red shale. In the northern part of the county the 

 Waynesburg A, 1 to 2 feet thick, is shown frequently at 40 feet above 

 the Waynesburg. The same coal is reached at one place in southeast 

 Harrison, where it is 50 feet above the Waynesburg, the interval being 

 filled with sandstone. 



The section is longer in southern Belmont. Professor Brown's care- 

 fully leveled section was obtained at Bellair, 4 miles below Wheel- 

 ing. It is: 



Feet 



1. Coal bed [Jollytown] 2 



2. Concealed, shale, sandstone 344 



3. Limestone 7 



4. Coal bed [Washington] 2 



5. Concealed, mostly shale 64 



6. Coal bed [Waynesburg A] Blossom 



7. Concealed 6 



8. Limestone 2 



9. Shale, thin limestone 45 



10. [Waynesburg] coal bed 2 



* J. J. Stevenson: (K), p. 266, and unpublished notes. 

 I. C. White : V. S. Geol. Survey Bulletin, no. 65, pp. 25, 26, 27. Catalogue of West 

 Virginia University for 1883-1884, pp. 55, 59, 61, 63. Geology of West Virginia, vol. la, 

 pp. 215, 216, 217, 219, 221, 222. 



