Allegheny formation in west Virginia 



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work by those observers seems to show that Allegheny beds extend south- 

 westwardly to not less than 75 miles beyond Martin county.* 



WEST VIRGINIA 



Beturning now to the east side and entering West Virginia in Monon- 

 galia county, west from Chestnut ridge, one may follow thence to the 

 Kanawha river the easterly boundary of the Allegheny and afterward, 

 mostly by means of oil-boring records, trace the section across the state 

 to make connection with Ohio. 



Morgantown is about 8 miles south from the Pennsylvania line. The 

 exact section there was obtained by Doctor White's measurements of a 

 core. Other measurements by him between that place and Webster, 25 

 miles southward, in Taylor county, may be grouped with that at Morgan- 

 town: 



I. Near Morgantown, 9 miles south from Pennsylvania line. 

 II. Booth's creek, 6 miles south from Morgantown. 

 III. White Day, 12 miles west of south from Morgantown. 

 IV. Valley Falls, 20 miles west of south from Morgantown. 

 V. Webster, 5 miles southeast from Valley Falls. 



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II 



III 



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Pittsburg coal 



Interval 561 



Upper Freeport coal 5 



Fireclay 7 



Sandstone [Butler] 53 



Lower Freeport coal Thin 



Shales and fireclay 22 



Sandstone and fireclay . . 7 



Black shale, sandstone ... 15 



Upper Kittanning coal ... 2 10 



Shales, fireclay 32 6 



Middle and Lower Kittan- 

 ning coal * 8 



Fireclay shale 15 



[Kittanning] sandstone . . 54 2 



Shale 2 4 



[Brookville] coal 1 



Fireclay, shale 21 6 



6 



60 



4 



Ft. 



120 



87 



15 



5 

 13 



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55 



10 



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8 [. 624 

 



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45 



1 2 

 25 



53 



44 



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 10 



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to the Pottsville sandstone. At Morgantown the Lower Freeport coal is 

 627 feet below the Pittsburg coal bed and at Webster it is 624 feet. At 

 Morgantown the Upper Freeport is 274 feet below the Ames limestone : 



* A. R. Crandall : Greenup, etc., pp. 68-69, pi. 28, figs. 2, 4, 30 ; fig. 7, 31 ; fig. 5 ; 

 Morgan, etc., p. 21. 



