THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST. 
Vol. XXXIV. DECEMBER, 190+. No. 6. 
THE WAVERLY FORMATIONS OF CENTRAL 
OHIO.* 
By Charles S. Pkosser. Columbus, Ohio, 
Assisted by 
Edgar R. Cumings, Bloomiagton, Indiana. 
PLATES XVII— XIX. 
CONTENTS. 
Introdnction 335 
Lithopolis and vicinity 336 
Lithopolis section 337 
Sections southwest of Lithopolis 343 
Hartman run section 343 
Smith run section 344 
Section northwest of Marcy 346 
Waterloo and Jefferson 348 
Jefferson section 348 
Eastern Franklin County 349 
Blacklick creek and village 349 
Reynoldsburg and vicinity 355 
Section southeast of Newark 358 
INTRODUCTION 
From fifteen to twenty miles east and southeast of Colum- 
bus are interesting exposures of most of the formations com- 
posing the Waverly series. These formations are shown to no 
better advantage at any other place readily accessible from 
Columbus and heretofore these localities have been either 
ver}' imperfectly described or not at all. A study of these 
rocks has furnished additional information regarding the char- 
acter of the Waverly formations in central Ohio which is con- 
sidered of sufficient interest to warrant publication. Some of 
the sections were first studied while engaged in areal work on 
the East Columbus quadrangle for the U. S. Geological Sur 
• Published by permission of Edward Orton, Jr., State Geologist of Ohio. 
