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The Bedford Shale in Kentucky is covered in thin soil and heavily weathered sandstone blocks. [18] Outcrops of the rock may be seen along the Pine Mountain ridge in Harlan County . [ 39 ] In Kentucky, a transition zone ranging from a few inches to 4.2 feet (1.3 m) in thickness occasionally appears as the basal member of the Bedford Shale.
Medina sandstone is a geographic subset of the Medina Group stratigraphic formation in New York State and beyond. The name refers specifically to sandstone first quarried in Medina, New York , and later quarried in other locations in Orleans County and adjacent quarries in Monroe County to the east and Niagara County to the west.
The Leo Petroglyph is a sandstone petroglyph containing 37 images of humans and other animals as well as footprints of each. The petroglyph is located near the small village of Leo, Ohio (in Jackson County, Ohio) and is thought to have been created by the Fort Ancient peoples (possibly AD 1000–1650). The area in which the sandstone petroglyph ...
Sand and gravel, salt, sandstone and conglomerate all have production over one million tons. Shale and clay are also quarried. Ohio produces three billion dollars worth of natural gas and $844 million of oil annually. Coal deposits were first recognized in the 1740s by early settlers and were mapped as early as 1752.
The Indian Head Rock is an eight-ton sandstone boulder, which had rested at the bottom of the Ohio River, [1] until September 2007 when it was retrieved by a group of local divers, led by amateur historian Steve Shaffer [2] of Ironton, Ohio. The recovery of the perennially submerged rock, which was the subject of local lore since the 1800s, was ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dayton, Ohio. [1] Map all ... Fire Blocks Historic District. October 15, 1992
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Black Hand Sandstone is a multistory, crossbedded, coarse-grained conglomeratic sandstone within the Cuyahoga Formation in Ohio Wikimedia Commons has media related to Black Hand Sandstone . Further reading