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together. Immense quantities of ore have been taken from 

 this bank and sent to the Marshall furnace at Newport. 

 For further details see the chapter on the iron ores of Perry 

 county. 



A foil tilt outcrop of the Oriskany sandstone may be 

 traced in Miller township. It is like the last mentioned, a 

 narrow syncline running inside the main anticline of the 

 township. It begins to be distinct near the southern angle 

 of the Bloomfield-Baileysburg road, and forms a more or 

 less distinct line of outcrop for two or three miles, passing 

 -south of the Clouser Iron Ore works along the slope of the 

 hill and gradually disappearing to the westward. 



A fifth outcrop occurs in the south and runs for more 

 than a mile along the north foot of Dick's hill between the 

 limestone and the shale. It is brought out by the Perry 

 county fault which here throws the Lower Helderberg lime- 

 stone against the Chemung. The fault may be well seen on 

 the township line at Montebello narrows, where its throw is 

 nearly or quite at a maximum amounting to 5000 feet. 



The Marcelius limestone, ore cmcl black s7tale, and Lower 

 HamilPm rocks, (VIII.) 



No very extensive exposures of these beds are found in 

 the township but there is sufficient evidence of their exis- 

 tence. At the north end of Pine Grove narrows a great 

 quantity of loose blocks of the Marcelius limestone may be 

 seen. They have been thrown out in searching the ground 

 for the Marcelius hematite bed. but as the openings have 

 long fallen in, no details can be obtained concerning their 

 thickness. The Marcelius shale has been taken out from 

 the same opening and heaps of it lin on the ground. 



Some of these beds may also be seen at Montebello nar- 

 g where they are slightly overturned and have a dip of 

 :0 south- southeast. The Marcelius shale is well shown. 

 A bed of hard closHgrained sandstone here lies at the base 

 of the Marcelius. Ir i< about a foot in thickness and has 

 nor been i g 1 elsewhere in the county. 



Enough has already been said concerning the Marcelius 



