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S26.03.014Description
Outcrop of the Upper Mercer limestone of the Pottsville Group at the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company Station in Zoar, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The engine is transporting coal from Belmont County to dock loadouts at Lake Erie. This railroad cut was originally excavated around 1889. This area has shale, siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate, limestone, coal, clay and flint lithologies. Bedrock is from the Pennsylvanian Geologic Period. The photograph was taken by Pauline Smyth in August 1953.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Train moving ahead between two limestone outcrops. Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company Station in Zoar, Ohio.