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1 Page' l'- INTERVAL SHEET VDMfl. Well No.: Well No. lloo WWCR483 Date'_~7~/~2~2~/~64~ PitOP: Town of McGaheysville Well #2 Sydnor COUNTY: Ro ckingham (McGaheysville) VDMR Well No: W-1100 From-To From-To Sample Interval: from 0 to 500 Tota 1 depth,_~5,-,0",0,- Oil Gas Water~Exploratory' Cuttings X Core Other, Washed samples only From-To From-To From-To O- S ISS _ IS IS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ No sample _ los los _ _ _ _ _ _ ISO ISO - ISS

2 CD OWNER: McGaheysville Water Co., Inc. - Well #2 DRILLER: Sydnor Pump & Well Co., Inc. COUNTY:' Rockingham VDMR #1100 WWCR #483 TOTAL DEPTH: 500' Weathered Zone (0-8') GEOLOGIC LOG 0-5 bluish-gray, fine-grained; white calcite; silty clay; iron pellets. 5-8 considerable amount of iron staining. New Market (8-17S') bluish-black, fine-grained, some thin bedded ahaiy-limestone with pyrite; minor slickensides. dove-gray, fine-grained, conchoidal fractures; vein calcite; calcite rhombohedrons in open spaces of vugs. gray, fine- grained, breaks with rough fracture surfaces; vein vein dove-gray, fine-grained, conchoidal fracture; a mixture of the gray and dove-gray varieties in above samples, and black shaly-limestone with pyrite bluish-gray, fine-grained; minor pyrite; vein bluish-gray and dove-gray; fine-grained, vein dove-gray and gray; dove-gray fine-grained, conchoidal fracture; gray coarse-grained, rough fracture surface; considerable amount of vein dove-gray variety as above.

3 - 2 - OWNER: McGaheysville Water Co., Inc. - Well #2 # dove-gray and gray; dove-gray fine-grained, conchoidal fracture; gray coarse-grained, rough fracture surface; considerable an-lount of vein with minor black, shaly limestone and pyrite. without the shaly limestone and pyrite light- to dark dove-gray, fine-grained, conchoidal fracture. styolites, minor pyrite; calcite rhombohedrons, vein as above, with minor light-green shaly limestone and light-green shale; pyrite in green portion minor pyrite. dove-gray, fine-grained, conchoidal fracture; with small black shaly layers three varieties; dove-gray as above; black. shaly. fine- grained; greenish-gray. slightly coarser-grained than the dove-gray and black. rough fracture surfaces. minor pyrite shaly. Limestone with pyrite. two varities as above, dove-gray and black, dove-gray as above; dark-gray, coarser-grained dove-gray, fine- to medium-grained, ;rough' fracture surfaces; minor pyrite. gray, fine-to medium-grained, rough fracture surfaces; vein except fine- to coarse- grained two varieties; dove-gray, fine-grained. conchoidal fractures, hair line fractures with calcite filling; black shaly, fine-grained, pyrite.

4 - 3 - OWNER: McGaheysville Water Co., Inc. - Well tl2 #1100 Beelcrnantown Formation ( ) light-greenish-gray, fine-grained, rough fracture surfaces, hair line fractures with calcite filling, calcite rhombohedrons. light-gray, fine-grained, rough fracture surfaces; vein Dolomite - surfaces. bluish-gray, medium-grained, rough fracture with vein calcite and minor pyrite Dolomite and dolomite, bluish-gray, medium. grained, rough fracture surfaces; green ahaly-limestone. fine-grained, pyrite; appears to be a small broken zone Dolomite - light-gray, fine- to medium-grained dark-gray, fine-grained, rough fracture surfaces; vein calcite, calcite rhombohedrons. Dolomite - gray, medium-grained, rough fracture surfaces, styolites; vein No sample. dove-gray, fine-grained, conchoidal fracture. styolites; minor pyrite; questionable breccia. Dolomite - dark-gray, medium-grained, rough fracture surfaces; calcite rhombohedrons but coarser-grained. with small vugs.

5 - 4 - OWNER: McGaheysville Water Co., Inc. - Well #2 # two varieties; gray, fine-grained, rough fracture surfaces; black shaiy. with pyrite; vein with increase of black shaly variety and vein light-gray, fine-grained, rough fracture surfaces; clear and white calcite; minor pyrite vein dove-gray, fine-grained, conchoidal fractures; Dolomite - black, fine- to medium-grained, minor pyrite; vein Dolomite - pyrite. Limestone Lirnefione gray, fine-grained, shaly; minor pyrite. gray, fine-grained, black shaly layers with dove-gray, fine- gmined, styolites. gray, mediurn-grained, rough fracture surfaces. with vein little vein dove-gray, fine- to medium-grained, good fracture zone with iron oxide sta. ns coating fracture surfaces but no staining.

6 - 5 - OWNER: McGaheysville Water Co., Inc. - Well #2 # black, fine- to rnediurn-grained, rough fracture surfaces; minor pyrite; vein GEOLOGIC SUMMARY ROCK UNIT Weathered Zone New Market Beekmantown Formation TIME ROCK UNIT Quaternary Ordovician Ordovician Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Garnett Gatlin, Geologist December 8, 1964

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