Pennsylvania Geological Survey - Historical Photographs

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Along creek west of Gapville
Along creek west of Gapville
Surface Water
Along creek west of Gapville. Laurel in blossom.
Bridge across Youghiogheny River at Layton
Bridge across Youghiogheny River at Layton
Stratigraphy
Bridge across Youghiogheny River at Layton, south end. Road tunnel in Mahoning sandstone and shale.
Cliff of Mahoning sandstone along Youghiogheny River
Cliff of Mahoning sandstone along Youghiogheny River
Stratigraphy
Cliff of Mahoning sandstone along Youghiogheny River south of Layton. Exposure from railroad up.
Cross-bedded Catskill sandstone
Cross-bedded Catskill sandstone
Stratigraphy
Cross-bedded Catskill sandstone on Lincoln Highway east of Everett. This bedding suggests eolian deposition rather than subaqueous.
Cucumber Run
Cucumber Run
Surface Water
Cucumber Run above the falls flowing over top of Homewood sandstone.
Fifty feet of Homewood sandstone
Fifty feet of Homewood sandstone
Stratigraphy
Fifty feet of Homewood sandstone exposed in the Williams Brothers Quarry, one mile east of Dunbar. The quarry was last worked forty years ago [from date of photograph].
Homewood sandstone cliff
Homewood sandstone cliff
Stratigraphy
Homewood sandstone cliff showing cross-bedding, a half mile northwest of intersection of Dunbar Creek and Glade Run, Uniontown quadrangle. Homewood twenty-five feet thick.
Humphrey Brick & Tile Company plant
Humphrey Brick & Tile Company plant
Nonmetallic Mineral Resources
Humphrey Brick & Tile Company plant at Port Barnett near Brookville. New quarry in hill on far side. View taken from old quarry
Looking north from Sugar Loaf Fire Tower
Looking north from Sugar Loaf Fire Tower
Geomorphology
Looking north from Sugar Loaf Fire Tower. Shows western side of Laurel Ridge anticline. Foreground hill capped by Pottsville, second hill by Pocono, and third hill by Pottsville.
Meadow Creek
Meadow Creek
Surface Water
Meadow Creek flowing over top of Homewood sandstone, two and a half miles south of Ohiopyle.
Miners' town at Grindstone
Miners' town at Grindstone
Cities, Towns, and Buildings
Miners' town at Grindstone. H. C. Frick Coal and Coke Company, Mine Colonial #3.
Monoclinal flexure
Monoclinal flexure
Stratigraphy
Monoclinal flexure, Catskill sandstone; Route 30 east of Everett.
Monongahela River
Monongahela River
Surface Water
Monongahela River, one half mile north of Brownsville looking southwest. Brownsville in distance.
National Pike
National Pike
Stratigraphy
National Pike, three quarters of a mile east of Hopwood. Showing (poorly) unconformity at base of Connoquenessing sandstone and at top of Mauch Chunk red shales.
National Pike
National Pike
Stratigraphy
National Pike, 1/5 mile west of Summit. Conglomeratic phase of a Devonian (Chemung) sandstone.
New Castle Limestone Company quarry
New Castle Limestone Company quarry
Nonmetallic Mineral Resources
New Castle Limestone Company quarry face with mine entrance, Dunbar., Quarry face shows bottom up: 50' Loyalhanna; 20' Mauch Chunk red shale sandstone; 15' Greenbrier limestone; 5' red shales; Surface; The mine openings are 45' high.
Ohiopyle Falls on Youghiogheny River
Ohiopyle Falls on Youghiogheny River
Surface Water
Ohiopyle Falls on Youghiogheny River. Taken from river level.
Ohiopyle Falls on Youghiogheny River
Ohiopyle Falls on Youghiogheny River
Surface Water
Ohiopyle Falls on Youghiogheny River. Taken sixty feet above river.
Plant of the New Castle Lime and Stone Company
Plant of the New Castle Lime and Stone Company
Nonmetallic Mineral Resources
Plant of the New Castle Lime and Stone Company. In background Loyalhanna limestone quarry overlain by Mauch Chunk strata.
Riddlesburg shale
Riddlesburg shale
Stratigraphy
Riddlesburg shale in small abandoned quarry north of highway at gap at Gapville. Hat marks most fossiliferous beds.