S20.01.057

Name/Title

S20.01.057

Description

Quarrying Buena Vista Sandstone at the Waller Brothers Stone Company's operation near McDermott, Scioto County, Ohio. Unit lithology in this area is shale interbedded with siltstone, sandstone and conglomerate of the Cuyahoga Formation. Bedrock is from the Mississippian Geologic Period. The photograph was taken in 1952 by John H. Melvin. REVIEW This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.

Context

Sandstone blocks being lifted out of pit with crane, man in foreground. Waller Brothers Stone Company in McDermott, Ohio.