WV-071 Big Lime

Marker text: BIG LIME
The Greenbrier Limestone, in this quarry is the "Big Lime" of the driller. Fish-egg like oolitic zones in the "Big Lime" yield oil and natural gas in West Virginia.
Sponsored by the W. VA. Centennial Committee of the Oil and Natural Gas Industry, West Virginia Historic Commission, 1963

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Location: US 219/WV 55, 0.5 miles north of Back Mountain Rd. (county route 1) & 3.0 miles south of WV 150, Pocahontas County, West Virginia

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