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Identifier: ohiobrookehancoc00west (find matches)
Title: Ohio, Brooke and Hancock counties
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: West Virginia Geological Survey Grimsley, George Perry, 1868- Griswold, William Tudor, 1859- Caine, Thomas A Tailby, G. W
Subjects: Geology Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: (Wheeling : Wheeling News Litho. Co.)
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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ithin a short distance from themine entry. The bed is also thin or poorly represented on thesouth side of the Pan Handle railroad tracks. The Bakerstown coal was formerly mined near the head ofHardin run, three-fourths of a mile west of the Pennsylvaniastate line. The coal was removed by stripping, and it is 90 to 95feet below the Ames limestone. The coal in the Wheeling Junc-tion section, 134 feet below the Ames horizon, is probably theBakerstown, though the interval is larger than in other sections. The Cambridge Limestone. In typical sections there are at this horizon two limestonesoften distinguished as Lower and Upper Cambridge, 50 to 100feet apart. The Upper was called the Pine creek by Dr. I. C.White in Pennsylvania, and the Lower the Brush creek. Dr. J.J. Stevenson has proposed that the Pine creek should be calledCambridge, as named by E. B. Andrews, while the one belowretains the name of Brush creek.1 He further states that the 1. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer, Vol. 17, p. 157; 1906.
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WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 133 Cambridge (Pine creek) is the Lower Cambridge of Ohio andthat the Upper Cambridge of Ohio, 20 to 30 feet higher, isabsent in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The Cambridge limestone in the Pan Handle area is 125 feetbelow the Ames. It is a gray to blue rock usually very fossilif-erous, and is sometimes confused with the Ames in sectionswhere but one of these two limestones appear. It is well ex-posed four feet thick in the hills back of New Cumberland, andin the stream valleys farther east. It forms the bed of Harmoncreek below Colliers town, and occurs in a number of the sec-tions south of Kings creek, 125 feet below the Ames. The sameinterval was found at Wellsburg where the Cambridge limestoneis 6 to 10 feet above the river. The Buffalo Sandstone. There is sometimes found below the Upper Cambridge lime-stone a massive sandstone named the Buffalo sandstone from acreek of this name in Butler county, Pennsylvania, by Dr. I. C.White. This interval in

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