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Fossil logs in sandstone in the Pennsylvanian of Ohio, USA.

The Pottsville Group is a Pennsylvanian-aged cyclothemic succession in eastern Ohio that contains nonmarine shales, marine shales, siltstones, sandstones, coals, marine limestones, and chert ("flint"). The lower Pottsville dates to the late Early Pennsylvanian. The upper part dates to the early Middle Pennsylvanian. The Lower-Middle Pennsylvanian boundary is apparently somewhere near the Boggs Member (?).

Shown above is a talus block of quartzose sandstone. The mottled rusty brown coloration is from iron oxides. The elongated, striated structures are fossil logs. This piece has eroded from an ridgetop outcrop of Massillon Sandstone.

Stratigraphy: Massillon Sandstone, lower Pottsville Group, upper Lower Pennsylvanian

Locality: talus block at roadcut next to Mohawk Dam, northwest of the town of Nellie, western Coshocton County, eastern Ohio, USA
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Author James St. John

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