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S26.07.016Description
An outcrop of the Benwood limestone of the Monongahela Group at an Ohio Power Company pit in Morgan 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 during the Great Lakes Section Society for Sedimentary Geology's Annual Field Trip in September 1979.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Group of people standing at the bottom of a limestone outcrop; river can be seen behind them. Ohio Power Company pit in Noble County, Ohio.