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S20.05.002Description
Field trip to the Madison Stone Company quarry southeast of West Jefferson in Jefferson Township, Madison County, Ohio. Exposed in the quarry is about 11 feet of Raisin River Dolomite of the Silurian Geologic Period that is overlain with sharp contact either by a lens of conglomerate and sandstone or by sandy dolomite of the basal Columbus Limestone. This image shows the overlying contact with the equivalent of the Hillsboro Sandstone of the Devonian Geologic Period. The photograph was taken at Stop 1 of the North-Central Section Geological Society of America field trip to "Devonian Outcrops in Columbus, Ohio, and Vicinity" led by Adriaan Janssens on May 17, 1969.
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This photograph site at the Madison Stone Company quarry in Jefferson Township, Madison County is Stop 1 described in detail in the field trip led by Adriaan Janssens for Field Trip No. 1 "Devonian Outcrops in Columbus, Ohio, and Vicinity" (see old GSO library inventory #5499 for Adriaan Janssens' copy of the field guide). See the following citation for the full field guide publication.
Title: Field trip guidebook, third annual meeting, May 15-17, 1969.
Author: Horace R Collins; Jean Simmons Brown; Geological Society of America. North-Central Section; Ohio. Division of Geological Survey; Ohio State University
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio Division of Geological Survey [1969]
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Group of people observing and taking samples at sandstone outcrop wall. Madison Stone Company in Madison County, Ohio.