DETAILED GEOLOGY OF CLAYSYILLE QUADRANGLE. 159 
good outcrop of the Middle Washington limestone occurs at the 
sharp bend in the road about three-fourths of a mile west of the rail¬ 
road. Along this stretch of road the Washington coal and its asso¬ 
ciated beds outcrop in several places. 
Lower Washington limestone and Washington and Little Wash¬ 
ington coals .—On Buffalo Creek the heavy layer in the Lower Wash¬ 
ington limestone is at least 2 feet thick and is very yellow, closely 
resembling the yellow layer in the Middle Washington limestone. 
These beds go under cover on the middle fork of Buffalo Creek just 
south of the “ S " Bridge on the National pike, on the east fork at 
Coffeys Crossing, and on the west fork 200 yards south of the Na¬ 
tional pike. At a cut on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad west of 
Taylorstown station these beds are finely exposed, and also on the 
road to the west just south of this place. Downstream from these 
points the A ashington coal rises to the crest of the Claysville anti¬ 
cline at Taylorstown. Up Pleasant Valley it crops out from the 
Blaine Township line to the forks of the road at the head of the 
stream. At several places along this valley the coal has been opened, 
but no mining is done at the present time. On the road to the north 
from North Buffalo Church the coal is being worked at the Imhoff 
bank. It is apparently of a somewhat better quality here than else¬ 
where, though an analysis of a carefully selected sample from this 
mine shows a high percentage of sulphur. On the road to the west 
from North Buffalo Church the Washington coal is exposed about 
halfway down the hill, at an interval of 112 feet from the Waynes- 
burg coal, which outcrops at the forks of the road at the bottom of 
the hill. 
Waynesburg and Waynesburg “A” and U B ” coals .—The Waynes- 
burg coal comes to the surface only along the south side of Brush 
Run at the north edge of the township. The “ B ” bed of this group 
is the only one exposed on the hillsides above Pleasant Valley. At 
the point where the Buffalo and Coffeys Crossing road intersects this 
valley it outcrops but a few feet above the stream in a bed 18 inches 
thick and 37 feet below the limestone called bv Stevenson the lb. 
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BLAINE TOWNSHIP, WASHINGTON COUNTY. 
The principal structural feature of Blaine Township is the Wash¬ 
ington anticline, which crosses the southwestern part in the vicinity of 
Taylorstown, having at this point a northeast-southwest trend. 
North of the village the crest of the anticline is unusually narrow, 
with a long, steep dip to the southeast and a very abrupt dip for a 
short distance to the west, beyond which the rocks for a long dis¬ 
tance are almost horizontal. Just south of Taylorstown the crest of 
(lie anticline pitches to a low, flat saddle, from which it rises to the 
dome north of Claysville. From this saddle a broad, flat, cross 
