WL Jf«™/ ND l SECTIONS IN VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. 31 
KINDI.K. 
About 30 or 40 feet above the last zone, the following" species 
were collected from a shaly dark-gray sandstone, about 100 yards 
southeast of Doctor Wallace's house: 
Faunule of zone 5 of section 1377 A, near Big Moccasin Gap, Virginia. 
[c, common; r, rare.] 
10. Macrodon sp. ( r ) . 
11. Pinna sp. (r). 
12. Schizodus sp. (r). 
13. Actinopteria sp. (c). 
14. Crenipecten sp. (r). 
15. Modiomorpha sp. (r). 
16. Bellerophon sp. (r). 
17. Conularia newberryi (r) . 
1. Lepidodendron sp. (r). 
2. Crinoid stems (r). 
3. Lingulodiscina newberryi (r). 
4. Productus sp. (c). 
5. Camarotoechia sp. (r). 
6. Spirifer keoknk (c). 
7. Sphenotus flavius (c). 
8. Edmondia sp. (r). 
9. Palaeoneilo bedfordensis (c). 
The soft yellow arenaceous sandstone (6) between the last station 
and the Mississippian ("Lower Carboniferous") limestone afforded 
the following fossils: Productus cora, Camarotcechia contractu. Both 
these forms are common. 
BLAND COUNTY, VA. 
In Bland County collections were made in the valleys of Wolf and 
Kimberling creeks and at the summit of Brushy Mountain, east of 
Hicksville post-office. 
Wolf and Kimberling creeks have cut their valleys into the easily 
eroded black shale (the Romney shale of the Pocahontas folio), which is 
estimated by Campbell a to have a thickness of from 400 to 600 feet. This 
shale dips sharply SE. and has the deep black color and finely lami- 
nated appearance generally characteristic of the black shale. Toward 
the top it merges into a hard, sandy, greenish-gray shale. The change 
is not abrupt, but beyond the limits of the 20 or 30 feet of passage 
beds the appearance and composition of the two formations are quite 
distinct. Campbell 6 regards the rocks in this region, between the 
Roniney shale and the. base of the Pennsylvania!! ("Coal Measures,") as 
a lithologic unit, and has given them the name of Kimberling shale. 
While it is difficult to separate the upper from the lower portion of 
this series on lithologic grounds, the fossils show that two distinct 
time periods are represented. The Mississippian ("Lower Carbon- 
iferous") limestone is absent here, and the transition from the Kim- 
berling shale to the Pennsylvanian is made with such imperceptible 
changes in the appearance of the rocks that the limits of the two are 
difficult to sharply define. 
Along the southeastern foot of Round Mountain a heavy bed of 
dark-gray chert, with occasional interstratified thin beds of greenish 
or yellowish sandstone lies just below the Romney shale. This is a 
a Campbell, M. R., Description of Pocahontas district: Geol. Atlas U. S., folio 26, U. S. Geol. Survey, 
1896. 
b Ibid. 
