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  • Usage in publication:
    • Avis sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Reger, D.B., and Price, P.H., 1926, Mercer, Monroe, and Summers Counties [West Virginia, with sections on paleobotany and paleontology by D.B. Reger, David White, G.H. Girty, and W.P. Prouty]: West Virginia Geological Survey [County Reports and Maps], [CGR-15], 963 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

Pg. 296, 345. Avis sandstone. Greenish gray, micaceous, massive or shaly, persistent, 10 to 35 feet thick. Underlies Low Gap shale and overlies Upper Avis shale, all members of Hinton group [formation]. Age is Mississippian.
Type locality: high up sides of mountains in vicinity of Hinton and Avis, Summers Co., southeastern WV. Also observed in Mercer Co.

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