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Berea Sandstone exposed at headwaters of the Sandusky River, Crawford County, Ohio.
Type
Formation
Unit of
Waverly Group
Underlies
Sunbury Shale
Overlies
Bedford Shale and Ohio Shale
Lithology
Primary
Sandstone, Siltstone
Location
Region
Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky
Country
United States
Type section
Named for
Berea, Ohio
Berea Sandstone, also known as Berea Grit, is a sandstone formation in the U.S. states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky. It is named after Berea, Ohio. The sandstone has been used as a building stone and is a source of oil and gas.
BereaSandstone, also known as Berea Grit, is a sandstone formation in the U.S. states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky. It...
Theological Seminary, Seoul, South Korea Berea Sandstone, a type of sandstone named for Berea, Ohio Berea (genus), a genus of parasitic copepods in the...
Sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk. Retrieved on 2012-05-11. Hannibal, Joseph T. (2020). "Bereasandstone: A heritage stone of international significance from Ohio, USA". Geological...
valley, they have provided an economic use as well. The BereaSandstone was quarried in Berea for grindstones and building stones, while the lowermost...
sandier in its upper part. The boundary with the BereaSandstone exhibits thin veins ("stringers") of sandstone, indicating erosion of the Bedford Shale which...
overlying St. Peter Sandstone Formation. The Everton Formation is composed primarily of dolomite, limestone, and some sandstone as well as a zone of...
overstepped or unconformably overlaid gradationally by Berea Siltstone and sharply by BereaSandstone. It is the regional equivalent of the Hangenberg Black...
coarse grained sandstone at the base of the Franconia formation in Ironton, Wisconsin. The Ironton is a medium to coarse grained sandstone with layers of...
period. The groups consists of the following formations: Bedford Shale BereaSandstone Sunbury Shale Cuyahoga Formation Logan Formation Maxville Limestone...
to the station's establishment was Berea's stone-based economy; in the late nineteenth century, the city's sandstone quarries were the world's largest...
designated as a state scenic river in 1979. Along its banks and tributaries Bereasandstone, Bedford shale, Cleveland Shale, and Chagrin Shale bedrock, are exposed...
recovered from Paleozoic formations, particularly Callixylon from BereaSandstone, but this is very unusual. The petrified wood is later exposed by erosion...
Monument Valley: Utah-Arizona state line Navajo Sandstone: in the Colorado Plateau Ohio Sandstone: Berea Grit in Northeast Ohio, originally used for grindstones...
X-ray computed tomography in pore structure characterization for a Bereasandstone: Resolution effect". Journal of Hydrology. 472–473: 254–261. Bibcode:2012JHyd...
may be separated from the brown shales of the Mahantango by occasional sandstone beds and concretions, or it may lie directly below the younger Late Devonian...
sediment. It may be represented by shale (Hangenberg Shale) or sandstone (Hangenberg Sandstone), and fossils are still rare. These layers are still within...
contractor was the city's Turner Construction, the building sheathed in BereaSandstone from northeast Ohio. From 1947 until 1964 it was the second-tallest...
and Ontario, Canada, and is mainly composed of marine shale with some sandstone. There are two main formations encompassed by the group: the Mahantango...
temple, members of the church were in poverty and funds were scarce. Bereasandstone was chiseled from the Stannard Quarry at the base of Gildersleeve Mountain...
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