354 The American Geologist. December, i904. 
The massive layer (No. 5 of the above section) is seen 
near the top in ail the sections in the vicinity of Blacklick vary- 
ing in thickness from 4 to 6 feet. The fall in the creek from 
the railroad bridge to the shale bank, below the Presbyterian 
church is about nine feet w^hich, therefore, makes the top of the 
.section at the railroad bridge about fifty-seven feet above the 
base of the Cuyahoga formation. The top of the Buena Vista 
member in this section was drawn provisionally at the top of 
No. 9, Avhich would make its thickness in this section about 
fiftv feet. The highway to the east affords occasional outcrops 
of sandstones similar to those seen in the banks of the creek at 
Blacklick. 
Two miles to the southwest of the Blacklick railroad bridge 
the railroad cut at Taylors exposes rather tliin bedded sand- 
stones. These sandstones are bufif in color, with rather fri- 
able texture like that of the Berea sandstone, they show plenty 
of ripple marks and some of the layers are contorted or con- 
cretionary in structure. About one-fourth of a mile to the 
west, small gullies show the presence of the red Bedford shale, 
some of the soil is reddish and two brick plants use this shale 
which is obtained from quarries located some distance north 
of the railroad on the Andrew Morrison farm. The strati- 
graphy and lithological characters apparently show conclusively 
that the sandstones in the railroad cut at Taylors belong in the 
Berea formation. 
The topographic map gives the elevation of the railroad 
cut at Taylors as nearly nine hundred feet and the nine hun- 
dred foot contour line extends up Blacklick creek to the rail- 
road bridge, so that the bed of the creek at Blacklick and the 
railroad cut at Taylors have about the same elevation. Hence, 
the e-istrrlv dip of twenty feet or more per mile must carry the 
sandstones shown in the railroad cut at Taylors below the bed 
of Blacklick creek at the village of Blacklick. 
Dr. Orton in the "Report on the Geology of Franklin coun- 
ty" mentioned ten feet of bedded sandstones in the railroad 
cut at Taylors which he called "the sandstones of the lower 
Wav^rlv."* evidently referring them to that division of the 
Waverly group which he called t he " Wavery quarry system." t 
* Rcpt Geol. Siurv. Ohio. vol. iii. 1878. p. 638. 
t F" thf classification of the Franklin county Waverly, see p. 639 of the 
rep"Tl ritrH .-ihnve. 
