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S07.07.007Description
View of the Scioto Valley from an outcrop of the Portsmouth Shale on the weathered and heavily gullied exposure of the shale-rich Cuyahoga Formation along United States Highway 23, north of Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio. Bedrock at this location is from the Devonian and Mississippian Geologic Periods. The surface landscape is alluvium from the Holocene Age of the Quaternary Period.The photograph was taken by Michael C. Hansen in 1979.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
View of the valley from a shale outcrop along highway. Along US 23 in Portsmouth, Ohio.