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S25.07.004Description
An outcrop of the Maxville Limestone at the Somerset Lime and Stone Company in Hopewell Township, Perry County, Ohio. Maxville Limestone can be subdivided into a basal, argillaceous to arenaceaous, dolomitic limestone and an upper, high-calcium, fossiliferous limestone with occasional shale partings or thin beds. Bedrock is from the Mississippian Geologic Period. The photograph was taken by Michael C. Hansen in 1978.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Layered and crumbling limestone outcrop; outcrop lines the quarry and pool of water is in the foreground. Somerset Lime and Stone Company in Perry County, Ohio.