114 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA. 
The Gould seam outcrops in these disturbed measures, 
but the lowest workable seam outcropping in the regular or 
flat portion of the basin, is the Wadsworth, which shows 
two feet nine inches at the surface outcrop and will prob- 
ably prove to be three feet of good coal at some distance 
underground; the next working seam above this is the 
Beechtree seam. This seam, a few miles to the east near 
Dailey Creek, is three feet in thickness and of good qual- 
ity. The next workable seam above this is the Coke seam, 
this one also near Dailey Oreek, is three feet in thickness 
of good coal, with a good roof and has excellent coking 
qualities. The next workable seam above this is the Wood- 
stock or Gholson seam; in this basin it averages from three 
to three and a half feet of solid coal of good quality for 
coke making, and locomotive or domestic purposes; it has 
a good roof, and around Blocton there is a large area of it 
nearly level. The next workable seam in this basin above 
the Woodstock is the Underwood or Thompson seam; this 
seam contains a solid bench of five and a half feet of good 
quality well suited to coking, steam, or domestic purposes. 
The following is a section of it: 
[Thompson seam, in section 21, township 22, 8., range 5, W.): 
SSS S|] Sf NOSTONE 
es SLATE 
WINCHES Copl 
— WN SNS INCHES WHITISH SLATE 
GGG “4 INCHES BOMY SLATE 
FINCHES Copl 
(FOOTE INCHES OARK col ORO SLATE 
VDC 
‘F007 coal 
0 INCHES SMUT 
SFEET GOOD conl 
WMI, «FIRE LAY 
The Helena seam is the next workable seam above the 
