EICHLAND COUNTY. 321 



Section at Nbwvillb. 



FT. 



1. Olive shales of Wa verly 160 



2. White sand-rock 10 to 15 



3. Coarse sandstone, with pebbles and bands of gravel 80 to 100 



The lower one hundred feet of this section compose the rock bluffs at 

 Newville, which present a striking resemblance to some of the outcrops 

 of the sub-carboniferous Conglomerate. It splits more readily into thin 

 layers, and its true character a^ the Waverly Conglomerate is apparent 

 from its mineral composition, as well as from its stratigraphical posi- 

 tion. 



Sbction at Daniel Zknt's Quarky, Bellville. 



IT. 



1. Earth .' 2 to 4 



2. Coarse pebbles of Drift 8 to 10 



3. Sandstone in thin layers 15 



4. " massive layer . 8 



5. " in layers of one to. four teet..i.. 15 



The rock of this exposure is much like the Logan sandstone, contains 

 few pebbles, but is on the same horizon as the Waverly Conglomerate. 

 It affords a large amount of excellent building stone, most of which is 

 taken by the railroad company. This rock forms all the hills in this 

 part of the county, which rise rapidly to the north to the height of thirty 

 feet or more. It is in the coves and gorges cut down in this rock, and 

 opening southward, that most of the gold of this county has been found, 

 which is obtained not only at the bottom of the gorges, but from the earth 

 which covers the slopes to the top. The fragment of gold-bearing quartz 

 which was picked up in this quarry, unquestionably dropped from the 

 layer of coarse p^febles at the top. These facts, coupled with that of 

 finding many erratics of quartz in the tops of the hills to the north and 

 north-west, indicate that this gold was brought in by the recent and not 

 by the Waverly Drift. 



Many layers in this quarry are conspicuously ripple-marked, and re- 

 mains of fucoids are abundant. Northward from this locality, on the- 

 road toward Mansfield, the hills rise through the olive shales of the Wa- 

 verly to the height of three hundred and fifty feet above the base of thie 

 quarry. The character of the rock is well shown in the hills, is a yellow, 

 fine-grained, shelly sandstone, and valueless as a quarry rock. Ap 

 ■preaching Mansfield it becomes coarser, more massive, and more highly 

 colored with iron, _SrM finally passes into a coarse, massive saadrock,. 

 evidently the Waverly Conglomerate, the top of which is one hundred, 

 and forty-five feet above the base of the quarry at Bellville. Ninety.- 

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