S20.03.005

Name/Title

S20.03.005

Description

Quarrying Berea Sandstone at the Cleveland Quarries Company operation in Amherst Township, Lorain County, Ohio. The quarry operation mined dimension stone in Berea Sandstone. Bedrock is from the Devonian Geologic Period. The image was made by George W. White in 1947. REVIEW Location given is a general point at the Cleveland Quarries operation complex in Amherst Township between Amherst and South Amherst in Lorain County, Ohio. This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.

Context

Looking down at layered sandstone walls in pit; workers in foreground. Cleveland Quarries Company in Lorain County, Ohio.