S26.07.019

Name/Title

S26.07.019

Description

An outcrop with the Pittsburgh (No. 8) coal of the Monongahela Group along United States Highway 22 near Wintersville, Jefferson County, Ohio. This area has shale, siltstone, mudstone, sandstone, limestone and coal lithologies. Bedrock is from the Pennsylvanian Geologic Period. The photograph shows William Smith and was probably taken in the 1950s. This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.

Context

Man with layered rock outcrop. On the side of US Highway 22 near Wintersville, Ohio.