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S11.19.045Description
Outcrop showing contact between the uranium-rich Huron Member of the Ohio Shale with overlying till of Wisconsinan age along the Lake Erie shoreline at Showse Park, Vermilion, Lorain County, Ohio. Pleistocene glaciers eroded large amounts of Ohio Shale and incorporated these fragments in tills. Unit lithology in this area is shale, siltstone, and sandstone. Bedrock is from the Devonian Geologic Period. The image was made in 1980.
REVIEW
For more information see Radon Revisited by Michael C. Hansen (Ohio Geological Survey, Ohio Geology Newsletter, Fall 1993) page 4
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Shale and till outcrop along lake shoreline. Shoreline at Showse Park in Vermilion, Ohio.