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S17.09.010Description
An outcrop of the Middle Kittanning (No. 6) coal of the Allegheny Group at the Boich Mining Company strip pit south of Interstate 70 on the west side of Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. This area has shale, siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate, limestone, coal, clay and flint lithologies. Bedrock is from the Pennsylvanian Geologic Period. The photograph was taken in February 1979 and includes Horace R. Collins and George Botoman of the Ohio Geological Survey.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Two construction workers observing short coal outcrop. Boich Mining Company pit on west side of Zanesville, Ohio.