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  • Usage in publication:
    • East Lynn sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Krebs, C.E., and Teets, D.D., Jr., 1913, Cabell, Wayne, and Lincoln Counties [West Virginia, with a section on soils of the Huntington area by W.J. Latimer]: West Virginia Geological Survey [County Reports and Maps], [CGR-4], 483 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

East Lynn is a massive, cliff-forming sandstone, 50 to 100 ft thick. Underlies Upper Kittanning coal and separated from underlying Middle Kittanning coal by 0 to 5 ft of slate. At East Lynn, Wayne Co., it forms massive cliffs 40 to 60 ft high.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Upper East Lynn/East Lynn sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Hennen, R.V., and Gawthrop, R.M., 1917, Braxton and Clay Counties [West Virginia, with sections on paleontology by W.A. Price, E.C. Case, and I.C. White]: West Virginia Geological Survey [County Reports and Maps], [CGR-3], 883 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

Upper East Lynn sandstone is massive to current-bedded, medium grained to coarse-grained, highly siliceous, grayish white, conglomeratic, frequently almost a mass of white and ovoidal-shaped quartz pebbles 0.25 to 0.5 in. in diameter. Forms cliffs. Thickness is 50 to 80 ft. Underlies Upper Kittanning coal and overlies Middle Kittanning coal. The name East Lynn sandstone is herein limited to the ledge, 25 to 70 ft thick, lying between Middle Kittanning coal and Lower Kittanning coal.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • East Lynn conglomerate
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
    • Revised
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Conglomerate
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Robinson, L.C., 1927, Geology of Morgan County, Kentucky, IN Weller, Stuart, Geology of the Cave in Rock quadrangle; a detailed report on the stratigraphy, structure and areal distribution of the rocks south of the Ohio River and in the vicinity of Marion, Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey Geologic Report, 6th series, v. 26, p. 229-259, (incl. structural map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

The only representative of the Allegheny that was observed in Morgan Co., KY, was the basal member which is called East Lynn conglomerate. It is a true conglomerate, and where it caps the hills, is cliff-forming.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • East Lynn sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Rice, C.L., Hiett, J.K., and Koozmin, E.D., 1994, Glossary of Pennsylvanian stratigraphic names, central Appalachian basin, IN Rice, C.L., ed., Elements of Pennsylvanian stratigraphy, central Appalachian basin: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 294, p. 115-155.


Summary:

Unit is a massive unranked sandstone exposed at East Lynn, Stonewall district, Wayne Co., WV. Occurs in lower part of Allegheny Formation. 50 to 100 ft thick. Locally conglomeratic. Extends to KY.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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