S26.07.025

Name/Title

S26.07.025

Description

An outcrop with stratigraphy of the Lower Monongahela Group on United States Highway 50 west of Guysville, Athens 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 Pauline Smyth during Stop 8 of the Ohio Academy of Science field trip on April 17, 1954. This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.

Context

Layered rock outcrop off the side of US 50 West. Guysville, Ohio.