S26.06.071

Name/Title

S26.06.071

Description

An outcrop showing rolling coal with the Brush Creek limestone of the Conemaugh Group along Interstate 77 at mile marker 50 in Guernsey County, Ohio. This area has shale, siltstone, mudstone, sandstone, limestone and coal lithologies. Bedrock is from the Pennsylvanian Geologic Period. The photograph was taken by Michael C. Hansen in 1974. This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.

Context

Highway view of limestone outcrop. Interstate 77 in Guernsey County, Ohio.