E. B. Andrews on the Geological Relations of Reck Oil. 89 
and now stand on each side at an angle of about 50°. They are 
represented by the inclined strata B and C in fig. 5. At D, are 
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Section near Bettie Station, N. es Va. R.R, 
seen strata from below, which have been forced up and wedved 
in between Band C. They have been bent by the great force 
to which they have been subjected. hese strata contain seams 
of cannel and bituminous sant and are altogether new to me, 
t A, just within the steep rocks on the east are gas and oil 
springs and some productive oil wells. At B, is seen the mouth 
of Oil Run and at C, the mouth of Laurel Fork of Goose Creek, 
where the rocks of the western dip are finely exposed in a rail- 
road cutting. A few miles further south and on the line of this 
geological disturbance we find, near where Hughes River crosses 
the uplift, many new and interesting strata, which have been 
a up from considerable de Some of these are shown in 
fig. 6. At a we find a seam of “ight colored compact flint from 
Section on Hughes River, Va, . 
ie oe 
eight to eleven feet in thiniwoss Atbi isa seam. of siie ‘Ursa 
at the top and blackened with bitumen at the bottom, which is 
ey rich in fossils such as. Brodagtis, vot foals T have 
was laid bare by removing the su 
oil worked out by hoes from the w ae 
next to the old Pohaayivinile Oil pin es has probably fu 
more oil than any ot] r locality in the country. A few 
have been bored in this region, but with what success T tid a | 
learn, nor had I Bees to. savant the oe whether de 
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