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Sandstone in the Pennsylvanian of Ohio, USA.

The Bowerston Shale Company was founded in the fall of 1929 by Samuel D. Milliken. They have brick manufacturing plants in Bowerston, Ohio and Hanover, Ohio.

The Hanover plant makes bricks using rocks derived from two quarries that I know of - the Hanover Pit and the Frazeysburg Pit. I have visited the latter, with kind permission of the Bowerston company. The Frazeysburg Pit targets shales in the Pottsville Group. The shales are excavated and left in piles in the quarry to weather. Limestones and sandstones are excluded from the shale piles. Shale material is eventually trucked to the Hanover Plant, where it is processed into bricks.

The out-of-place, whitish-gray colored sandstone shown above is in the old/northern quarry of the Frazeyburg Pit in northwestern Muskingum County, Ohio. The rock is derived from an apparent sandstone channel body in the Pennsylvanian-aged Pottsville Group - it is a light-colored, muscovitic quartzose sandstone. I have never before encountered a sandstone like this in the Pottsville Group.

Stratigraphy: sandstone body above the Boggs Member & below the Lower Mercer Limestone, Pottsville Group, lower Atokan Stage, lower Middle Pennsylvanian

Locality: old/northern quarry, Frazeysburg Pit (Bowerston Shale Company), southern side of Clay Pit Road, ~1.7 air miles north of Frazeysburg, Jackson Township, northwestern Muskingum County, eastern Ohio, USA (40° 08’ 50.56” North latitude, 82° 07’ 23.60” West longitude)
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Author James St. John

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