Name/Title
S25.04.002Description
Outcrop of the Berea Sandstone overlain by a weathered and heavily gullied exposure of the Henley and Portsmouth Shales of the Cuyahoga Formation along United States Highway 23, north of Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio. The contact with the overlying sandstone-rich and cliff-forming Logan Formation is present near the top of the hill. Bedrock is from the Devonian and Mississippian Geologic Periods. The photograph was taken by Michael C. Hansen in 1979 and used in Information Circular 63: Ohio's Geology in Core and Outcrop (appears on page 72).
REVIEW
Audrey Blakeman and Frank Fugitt are conducting background work on this area to standardize the nomenclature 2015/2016.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Sandstone and shale outcrop along highway. Along US Highway 23 and north of Portsmouth; Scioto County, Ohio.