S26.06.085

Name/Title

S26.06.085

Description

An outcrop of the Brush Creek limestone of the Conemaugh Group along Interstate 77 at mile marker 40 south of Byesville, Guernsey County, Ohio. This outcrop location is referred to as an "offshore bar" in the metadata accompanying the image. 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 1980. This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.

Context

View of limestone outcrop from Interstate 77. Byesville, Ohio.