This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...ledge on the opposite side of the river is composed of this sandstone, which, were the picture perfect, could be followed by the eye down the river to the right until it passes beneath the massive cliff of the Fayette below Caperton. At Prince, Quinnimont, Piney Creek, and Thurmond it carries quartz pebbles, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...ledge on the opposite side of the river is composed of this sandstone, which, were the picture perfect, could be followed by the eye down the river to the right until it passes beneath the massive cliff of the Fayette below Caperton. At Prince, Quinnimont, Piney Creek, and Thurmond it carries quartz pebbles, and between Cotton Hill and Hawks Nest, where it skirts the river a few feet above low water, it is again conglomeratic. The pebbles are usually small, but at Cotton Hill they are large, some of them being 2 inches in diameter. In thickness it varies from 40 to 100 feet, and in character from a massive pebbly rock to a series of flaggy sandstones. Its recognition along the river and in the interior will be of great advantage to engineers and prospectors, because of its constancy and the approximately regular interval separating it from the coals above and below. SEWELL FORMATION. The body of shales and sandstones immediately overlying the Raleigh and extending from it up to the Fayette is called the Sewell formation, from the town of the same name on New River at which the coal seam Conglomerate series of WestVirginia, by W. M. Fontaiue: Am. Jour. Sci., Vol. XI, April, 1876, p. 281. C E5E r SEWELL FORMATION. 495 occurring in this formation was early mined. In Garden Ground Mountain, across the river from McKendree, it first makes its appearance in the river section, and continues above water level to Gauley, where the base of the Fayette dips to the stream. In passing down the river the first complete section of the Sewell formation is exposed above the mine at Nuttall. At this point the whole of the formation is decidedly arenaceous, but there are only two sandstones heavy enough to produce ledges upon the slopes. The...
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