382 | GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
SEDIMENTATION OF THE ORISKANY SANDSTONE. 
The section exposed at the quarry of the Delphos Stone and Stave 
Company, half a mile south of Charloe, in Paulding county, is as follows, 
in descending order. It covers the lower part of the Oriskany phase, 
embracing also the top of the Waterlime: 
No. 1. Sandstone, having the appearance of that at Grand Rap- 
ids, in Wood county; hard; suture-jointed upon No. 2; 
sawn off for flagging; seen only ........... AUS A 6 in. 
Even-grained, magnesian limestone of a buff color; con- 
taining nodules oi chert; sawn into handsome building 
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¢ 3. Dark drab; soft; magnesian, with some cavities, which 
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‘“ 4. Rough; blue drab; close-grained, heavy, and hard, or 
brecciated and vesicular; with some pyrites; in one bed 
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No. 1 of this section is the base of the Oriskany; No. 2 is a stone seen 
at other places embraced within the Lower Corniferous; Nos. 3 and 4 
are the uppermost members\of the Waterlime. ~ 
On the eastern slope of the Niagara, at Bellevue, in Sandusky county, 
the sandy beds supposed to represent the Oriskany of New York are em- 
braced within the Waterlime, about six feet of that formation overlying 
