Iron ores, salt and sandstones . usually only twenty-five or thirty feet thick, yet occa-sionally, as on Crooked run in Monongalia County, near theWest Virginia-Pennsylvania line, it thickens up to one hun-dred feet in a solid and massive wall. Through Monongalia, Marion, Tyler, Preston, Barbour,Upshur, Lewis, Braxton, Clay, Kanawha, Putnam, Mason, Cabelland Wayne, this stratum can be traced from the Pennsylvania,line on the north to the Kentucky, boundary on the is well exposed along the Ohio river in the region of Hunting-ton, where it makes cliffs fifty to sixty feet high along
Iron ores, salt and sandstones . usually only twenty-five or thirty feet thick, yet occa-sionally, as on Crooked run in Monongalia County, near theWest Virginia-Pennsylvania line, it thickens up to one hun-dred feet in a solid and massive wall. Through Monongalia, Marion, Tyler, Preston, Barbour,Upshur, Lewis, Braxton, Clay, Kanawha, Putnam, Mason, Cabelland Wayne, this stratum can be traced from the Pennsylvania,line on the north to the Kentucky, boundary on the is well exposed along the Ohio river in the region of Hunting-ton, where it makes cliffs fifty to sixty feet high along the hills-back from the river valley. It is also conspicuous in cliffs alongthe Guyandotte, Mud, and Coal rivers, as well as along theGreat Kanawha, where it has been frequently quarried and usedin building the locks below Charleston. Bennett Quarry at Huntington, Cabell County. The Bennett sandstone quarry is located two miles southwestof the city of Huntington on 16th street beyond the plant of the pj4 £> e CD go o p P CD. WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 475 Ohio Clay Shingle Co. It is worked only on a small scale. Thefloor of the quarry is about 70 feet above the Ames fossiliferousshale and limestone, so the rock would be the Morgantown sand-stone. Quarry. The sandstone is mostly brown or buff in color,and is quarried in blocks of good size. A section shows, Feet. Shales and clay cover 3 Shaly sandstone 4 Solid ledge sandstone, buff. 15 Gassaway Development Company Quarries, Braxton County. The Gassaway Development Company owns two quarriesone-half mile southeast of the town of Gassaway which is locatedon the Coal and Coke railroad. These quarries are worked byvarious stone contractors who supply the stone for the local stone has a greenish brown color, mostly fine grained withsome white mica irregularly distributed through it, and a fewof the ledges show a coarse grained texture. The floor of thequarry is 290 feet above the railroad track at the station, and
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