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S26.04.078Description
An outcrop at the United States Ceramic Tile Company quarry showing Newland (No. 4, Brookville) coal and clay overlain by Putnam Hill limestone overlain by the Lower Kittanning (No. 5) coal of the Allegheny Group in Pike Township, Stark County, Ohio. The Lower Kittanning (No. 5) coal is near the crest of the outcrop. This area has shale, siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate, limestone, coal, clay and flint lithologies. Bedrock is from the Pennsylvanian Geologic Period. The image is from 1960. In 1960, the office for the United States Ceramic Tile Company was located at 10233 Sandyville Ave SE, East Sparta, OH 44626. The following information concerning the United States Ceramic Tile Company strip pit is taken verbatim from page 142 for Stop Number 1 on Field Trip 4: Pennsylvanian Geology of Eastern Ohio in Guidebook for Field Trips, Cincinnati Meeting, 1961/ by Geological Society of America, New York : Geological Society of America (Guidebook Series), 1961. The basis for this stripping operation is the Tionesta clay, which is exposed at the base of the highwall. Directly across Nimishillen Creek, as at this locality, the Tionesta clay is broken by thin carbonaceous shale interbeds. Lateral variations of the interval between the Tionesta coal and the Brookville coal are illustrated in the road cuts along Ohio State Route 8 south of East Sparta, where the Homewood member occurs as a thick channel sandstone and replaces the Tionesta clay and coal. The Brookville coal and Putnam Hill limestone are slightly thinner at East Sparta than to the west, where the Brookville coal is extensively stripped. Westward the Putnam Hill limestone is characterized by splits which locally rise as much as 15 feet above the main bench. This marine member may also be represented in part by dark gray fossiliferous shale. The Brookville-Lower Kittanning coal bed interval here is 77 feet, but the interval diminishes evenly to the west and in a distance of 20 miles it thins to approximately 20 feet. The character of the intervening shale within this 20-mile distance is uniform.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Sandstone outcrop at US Ceramic Tile Quarry. Stark County, Ohio.