Guidebook 15

Sedimentology and provenance of Carboniferous and Permian rocks of Athens County, southeastern Ohio

by Gregory C. Nadon, Elizabeth H. Gierlowski-Kordesch, and Joseph P. Smith
23 p., 22 figures, 1998.
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This guidebook focuses on exposures of Pennsylvanian-age sediments in southeastern Ohio. The authors discuss the regional and local geologic settings for these sediments, which are interpreted to have been deposited in a distal foreland basin. Provenance data for 25 Athens County sandstones are summarized. The sandstones, shales, and carbonates at four stops are interpreted on the basis of geometry and sedimentological features.