RICHLAND COUNTY. 321 
SECTION AT NEWVILLE. 
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3. Coarse sandstone, with pebbles and bands of gravel ......--.---- 80 to 100 
The lower one hundred feet of this section compose the rock bluffs at 
Newville, which present a striking resemblance to some of the outcrops 
of the sub-carboniferous Conglomerate. It splits more readily into thin 
layers, and its true character as the Waverly Conglomerate is apparent 
from its mineral composition, as weli as from its stratigraphical posi- 
tion. 
SECTION AT DANIEL ZENT’S QUARRY, BELLVILLE. 
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2, (CONS DS OIDIES OL ID .co 650 eG0s450 Gecuen coKbbe Guan HeboOU GocooO Ce 8 to 10 
3. Sandstone in thin layers:...............- L Bobo becoodad SOB S EBS Rs is eh A 15 
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The rock of this exposure is much like the Logan sandstone, contains 
few pebbles, but is on the same horizon as the Waverly Conglomerate. 
It affords a large amount of excellent building stone, most of which is 
taken by the railroad company. This rock forms all the hills in this 
part of the county, which rise rapidly to the north to the height of thirty 
feet or more. It is in the coves and gorges cut down in this rock, and 
opening southward, that most of the gold of this county has been found, 
which is obtained not only at the bottom of the gorges, but from the earth 
which covers the slopes to the top. The fragment of gold-bearing quartz 
which was picked up in this quarry, unquestionably dropped from the 
layer of coarse pebbles at the top. These facts, coupled with that of 
finding many erratics of quartz in the tops of the hills to the north and 
north-west, indicate that this gold was brought in by the recent and not, 
by the Waverly Drift. 
Many layers in this quarry are conspicuously ripple-marked, and re- 
mains of fucoids are abundant. Northward from this locality, on the: 
road toward Mansfield, the hills rise through the olive shales of the Wa- 
verly to the height of three hundred and fifty feet above the base of this: 
quarry. The character of the rock is well shown in the hills, is a yellow,,. 
fine-grained, shelly sandstone, and valueless as a quarry rock. Ap- 
proaching Mansfield it becomes coarser, more massive, and more highly 
colored with iron, and finally passes into a coarse, massive sand-rock, 
evidently the Waverly Conglomerate, the top of which is one hundred 
and forty-five feet above the base of the quarry at Bellville. Ninety 
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