S26.08.008

Name/Title

S26.08.008

Description

An outcrop of the Dunkard Group limestone at the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company tunnel at United States Highway 40 in St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio. This area has shale, siltstone, mudstone, sandstone, limestone and coal lithologies. Bedrock is from the Late Pennsylvanian, Early Permian Geologic Period. The photograph was taken by Myron T. Sturgeon in June 1944. This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.

Context

Limestone outcrop with dugout hole at the bottom. At US Highway 40 in Saint Clairsville, Ohio.