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S26.06.038Description
An outcrop with coal balls in the Ames limestone and Duquesne coal of the Conemaugh Group along United States Highway 22 west of Wintersville in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. Coal balls are concretions of mineralized plant debris, occurring in coal seams or in adjacent rocks. This area has shale, siltstone, mudstone, sandstone, limestone and coal lithologies. Bedrock is from the Pennsylvanian Geologic Period. The image includes Michael L. Couchot and was taken by Micheal C. Hansen in 1975.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Man looking at rock sample at the bottom of outcrop; outcrop is along highway. Along US 22 and west of Wintersville, Ohio.