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S25.02.041Description
An outcrop showing contact between the thin-bedded sandstone and shale of the Bedford Shale overlain by thick beds of the Berea Sandstone at Sunbury, Delaware County, Ohio. The Berea Sandstone in this exposure contains the prominent widespread interval of soft sediment deformation characterizing the base of the unit. Bedrock is from the Devonian Geologic Period. The photograph was taken by Michael J. Clifford in 1973 and used in Information Circular 63: Ohio's Geology in Core and Outcrop (appears on page 77).
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Layered sandstone and shale outcrop. Found in Sunbury, Ohio.