Field Notebook: MD 1945c

doc513 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY — LOOSE-LEAF FIELD NOTEBOOK — 9-137

K.M. Waage 650 1475 2135

K.M.Waage Photo AMO 12-53 1. Coal + clay crop. Black shale and coal seam underlain by soft clay with zone of flint clay and silty flint at base. 2. Lower Bakerstown MINE 3. Possible position of Harlem coal. A wet weather seep above the Pittsburgh redbeds. 4. Red + variegated clays of Pittsburgh 'red beds'. Well developed here. May be useful for redbrick locally. 5. Sandstone crop. Saltsburg sandstone 6. Coal crop. Lower Bakerstown coal shows overlying Friendville shales and underlying Thomas clay. Latter thinner than normal. 7. Coal blossom and clay crop. May be Brush Creek outcrop or wash from nearby. Many seeps locally. Du woods to NW. a heavy sandstone float comes in. Seeps at 11. may be same seam. 8. Massive sandstone crop. 9. attitude (N.37°E, 15°NW) on sandy shale + siltstones. Seep to west on bench may indicate coal seam but no direct evidence. 12-53

Photo AMO 12-53 10. Mozart #3 mine, Upper Freeport coal. 11. Seeps, may indicate Brush Creek coal horizon but no direct evidence. 12. Knot underlain by shales & sandy shales weathering to much ferruginous concretion & shale. Bench at base may indicate position of a coal. No good exposures of the unweathered shale, no limestone or fossils found. 13. Slope below bench mentioned in 12. Basal half as shown chiefly full of float of thin-bedded sandstone (Lower Molsonian probably.) Spring and other seeps along bench at foot of slope in vicinity of old farmhouse foundations may indicate trace of Upper Freeport Coal. Louis Mozart claims heading from Mozart #3 mine came out in field near this farmhouse but no evidence was found of such an opening. 14. Probable position of Upper Bakerstown coal. No crop in roadway but wet- weather seeps locally present. 15. Lodge of massive mud- to coarse-grained SS. Just to east at intersection of mountain road and road to abandoned farm there is much fine fragmented flint AMO-12-53

Photo AMO 12-53 clay in soil & ditchcrops & mixed with clay in road. This may be the Upper Kittanning clay (as at Laurel Run + Mogart Lot 135) with massive sunsletone the roof-rock. Position of clay & presence of coal not indicated by outcrop evidence. AMO - 12-53

AMO 10-126 March clumps contact accident Rd = 4 to 8 ft of clay gray white graded downward to green red Attitude on thin banded local Patteville just above contact N 40 E ± 70 dip SE

Cremery at Gruntsville. Surface - 0 - 2 Yellow SS 2 - 25 Soapstone 25 - 53 Gray SS 53 - 88 Coal 88 - 90 Soapstone 90 - 115 SS (Gray) 115 - 125 Black Slate 125 - 160 Gray Sand 160 - 165 Soapstone 165 - 198. (Getting Weak) On 217, Pa line, Shrock, 3/4 Mi N. Gruntsville. Surface 30' Soapstone 30 - 130 Coal 130 - 135 Soapstone 135 - 170 Black Slate 170 - 192 (On coal.)

Dan J. Brenneman Grantsville, Md., RT #1. Sampled crop in brook cut in woods about 100 yards back of Brenneman barn. 4' of clay smale, LB coal, upper 2' dark marl silty, lower part silty light gray yellow thin. Sandstone under clay - N 20 E +/- 140 E AMD 10-28 (1) Red bed supposedly between FH & H. About 3' of gray plastic clay at top.

SD71. 4489 1'-0" surface 5'-0" sandrock 3'-0" pieces monore 1'-0" trace of coal 15'-0" sandrock 1'-0" slate 1'-0" trace of coal 4'-0" soft clay sandy 13'-6" sandrock 4'-0" dark slate 1'-0" trace of coal 3'-0" slate 5'-0" sandrock 1'-0" trace of coal 3'-0" slate 5'-0" sandrock 2'-0" slate 2'-0" coal 5'-0" soft clay sandy 5'-0" slate 15'-0" sandrock 95'-0" Carl Stanton property Redgely hill Mr. Jno. Wees Mr. Bart B. Johnson General Refractors West Decatur Pa.

Ed Stanton mine 7-8" coal 1" bench 27" coal 1" bench 2" coal Upper Freeport. Gray flint clay in float hill below V.F crop. Fair stuff.

Pleasant Valley #1 3 1/2' soft clay on crop. To content secondary Overlying by 1 1/2 to 2' of silty something to silty flint, inglet gray. Has zone dark silt/flint to 1 1/2' from bas S 57 W, 90 NW See section plat Pleasant Valley # 2 3'+ Flint + silicious clays tone of UK clay. About 2 1/2' fair flint Silty silt/fluent 6" to 1' Gray flint dark (Fe?) strew by 1 1/2 - 2' Silty claystone + silicious flint 2-4- Pleasant Valley # 3 Loweley Bakerstown mud/clay 6' crop clay - maxworth. To concretions = shale or clay

UM CO slippings N 37° E 7° SE Sample 2½' flint clay

AMO-10-28 X - Shade #1 - Hersker, 5S 6' draw state 23-24" coal 1" shale 2-4" Boneg coal. Hard sandy clay 1 to 1½' Then probably lime.

Thomas Clay -- Within mine of Alleg. Coal, Corp. Allegheny #1 mine, mi Soferrings; 450 feet from nearest crop. Sample#1 Upper 3' of clay. Hard gray siltaceous finely silty pyrite nodules.

Peter Von Heineman 6-5135 Park Service. Similar

Garret Co. - See about property maps WPA memo map. Mr drwin - Hell street - driller. 1qt 20. oil