S26.04.057

Name/Title

S26.04.057

Description

An outcrop of the Lower Freeport (No. 6a) coal of the Allegheny Group along the James A. Rhodes Appalachian Highway, Ohio State Route 32, in Vinton County, Ohio. This area has shale, siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate, limestone, coal, clay and flint lithologies. Bedrock is from the Pennsylvanian Geologic Period. The image is dated in 1980. This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.

Context

Looking at coal outcrop from the side of the highway. Along James A. Rhodes Appalachian Highway in Vinton County, Ohio.