May, 1915.] 
Buried Stream Channels. 
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THE CHANNEL SOUTH OF LOGAN. 
South of Logan the regularity is broken by the scar of a buried 
channel It extends in an east and southeast direction across the 
south central part of Falls Township, Hocking County and can 
be first distinctly seen along a west tributary to Dry Run. After 
meeting that stream farther east it turns south past the junction 
with Scott Creek finally burying itself under a continuous blanket 
of Pennsylvanian rocks one mile north of the village of Ewing. 
This channel is clearly marked by the filling—a coarse quartz 
sandstone usually stained a reddish brown by the weathering of 
the iron cement. Occasional well-rounded quartz pebbles may 
be found. The depression extends as a distinct channel for a 
distance of four miles, its width changing from place to place, 
due both to variations in the original channel and the depth to 
which the filling has been removed by recent erosion. At one 
place it is 400 yards; where Scott Creek has cut well down into the 
filling it is but little over 150 yards wide. 
The exact depth was not obtained but from the general level 
of the basal sandstone beyond the borders of the channel to the 
lowest exposed rock of the same character is a vertical distance of 
over 100 feet. At the north a small tributary to Dry Run has cut 
down to the Waverly almost half way across the channel. Judging 
from this the bottom is not far below. The elevation is near 
779 feet above sea level, while the lowest exposure to the south is 
below 755 feet, indicating a southward gradient. Just above the 
junction of Dry Run with Scott Creek buff colored Waverly shales 
were found in grave diggings; across the road to the west coarse 
iron-stained sandstone forms the bed of the present stream, 
giving a relief of 55 feet in little over twice that distance hori¬ 
zontally. 
The abrupt curve in its course, the depth of the depression and 
the steepness of the slopes at the sides are strong evidences of the 
action of meteoric waters. 
THE CHANNEL SOUTH OF BYER. 
Another buried valley may be found one mile south of Byer, 
the station at the junction of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern 
and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroads. It crosses 
the present valley of Pigeon Creek where that stream receives 
the second tributary from the west. The direction is a little south 
of west or north of east but only along the sides of this valley 
is the depression distinctly visible. In these outcrops it is a 
cross-bedded quartz conglomerate enclosed on each side by drab 
to gray argillaceous shales and sandstones. Surface weathering 
has worn away the less resistent material thus exposing the coarse 
conlomerate filling on the east bank of Pigeon Creek. There, in 
