136 J. J. STEVENSON CARBONIFEROUS OF APPALACHIAN BASIN 



Doctor White has a section near Grand.view,-4 miles farther down the 

 river, in which the "Washington coal bed is 150 feet above low water, 

 the rocks rising in this direction, and at 3 miles farther down he finds 

 on the West Virginia side the Washington at 150 to 160 feet above 

 the Uniontown. In the Grandview section, obtained on a steep hill 

 overlooking the river, the measurement reaches to 370 feet above the 

 Washington, bnt does not reach the Nineveh limestone; so that the 

 measurement at New Martinsville is to be accepted rather than those 

 by Professor Andrews. A mark of coal is at 250 feet above the Wash- 

 ington, but the Jollytown, if present, is concealed. There is no sandstone 

 in the Waynesburg interval and the Washington coal bed rests on 10 

 feet of red shale. The sandstones of the section are mostly fine grained 

 and laminated and the massive grindstone beds of the Marietta region 

 seem to be unrepresented. As stated on a preceding page, the red beds 

 are numerous, beginning at 15 feet above the Washington coal bed; there- 

 are 5 beds in 330 feet, in all 65 feet thick. The Cowrun anticline, or 

 "Oil-break," is crossed by the Ohio river at a few miles below Grandview, 

 and Dunkard rocks are reached again only as one approaches Marietta. 



At about 3 miles west from the Grandview section the Waynesburg^ 

 is represented by a laminated sandstone 40 feet above the Uniontown 

 (Hobson) coal bed, and a massive rock, rather coarse and 30 feet thick,, 

 is at 102 feet above that bed. A coal bed is reported in Muskingum 

 township at 114 feet above what is taken to be the Uniontown (Hobson) 

 coal bed; this is west from the anticline. The higher bed underlies. 

 36 feet of reds, and another red bed, resting on 2 feet of limestone, is. 

 56 feet higher. The Uniontown seems to be recognizable in Barlow,, 

 on the Meigs County border, where a thick red is at 140 feet above it. 

 The Washington coal bed is present in Marietta township and the asso- 

 ciated rocks are shown along the river just below Marietta, in Warren 

 township, where Professor Andrews found the coal bed at 46 feet above 

 the river with the grindstone beds above it. Farther down is Doctor- 

 White's section: 



Feet 



1. Sandstone, quarried for grindstones 45 



2. Concealed, some red marly shale 30 



3. Gray sandy shale 10 



4. Sandstone, quarried for grindstones 45 



5. Shale 3 



6. Coal bed [Washington] 1 



7. Concealed 60 



8. Coarse massive sandstone to low water 15 



