PRICE SANDSTONE 451 



Feet 



29. Yellow to reddish, in places brick-red, friable sandstone 53 



28. Purple to black shale 5 



27. Yellowish sandy shale 8 



26. Black to purple shale <> 



25. Fine-grained, friable, yellow sandstone in 



24. Light yellow shale 12 



23. Pink to dark yellow shale 1(5 



22. Light yellow shale 12 



2L Bituminous shale, with thin bed of coal. Plant remains abundant. ... 10 



20. Yellow to brick-red sandstone 100 



19. Bituminous shale, with about 3 feet of coal. Plant remains abundant. 10 



18. Yellow shaly sandstone 



17. Red sandstone 1 



16. Yellow, finely laminated shale 24 



15. Bituminous shale. Plant remains at bottom 12 



14. Coal 4 



13. Coarse-grained, gray to yellow sandstone, very firm 10 



12. Coarse-grained, friable, yellow to pink santlstone 23 



11. Gray, thick-bedded, concretionary sandstone. Concretions up to 5 feet 



in diameter 17 



10. Thick to thin bedded, friable sandstone, some almost shaly ; gray, 



pink, red 195 



9. Coarse-grained sandstone, thick-bedded, firm, yellowish gray 10 



8. Yellow to pink sandstone, very friable, with a few thin beds of firm 



sandstone 5.*> 



7. Sandstone made up largely of concretions 3 



6. Shaly sandstone, yellow, gray, pink, red 88 



5. Gray, thick-bedded, conglomeratic sandstone 11 



4. Yellow to pink sandy shale 17 



3. Conglomerate 4 



2. Yellow to pink sandy shale 15 



1. Gray conglomerate, pebbles up to more than an inch in diameter. ... 6 



Total thickness of Price 75' 



Section of the Mississippian in the Narrows region 



ABE A OF OnSERAATTON 



Most of the observations on this section were made about 4 miles uortli 

 of Narrows along New River, and wherever the Narrows area or section 

 is mentioned reference is to this place. 



H IN TON FORMATION 



This formation was not measured or described in detail by the writer. 

 In the Pocahontas region west of Narrows, M. E. Campbell describes it 

 as consisting of a ^'variety of beds of calcareous shale, impure limestone, 

 red argillaceous shale, sandy shale, and sandstone" 1,250 to 1,350 feet in 



