Black hand sandstone explained

Black Hand Sandstone is a multistory, crossbedded, coarse-grained conglomeratic sandstone within the Cuyahoga Formation in Ohio.

Further reading

• Matchen . David L. . Kammer . Thomas W. . Incised valley fill interpretation for Mississippian Black Hand Sandstone, Appalachian Basin, USA: Implications for glacial eustasy at Kinderhookian–Osagean (Tn2–Tn3) boundary . Sedimentary Geology . 15 September 2006 . 191 . 1 . 89–113 . 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.02.002 . 2006SedG..191...89M .
• Matchen . David L. . Depositional environments, age, and regional correlation of the Black Hand Sandstone Member of the Cuyahoga Formation and the Lower Mississippian of the central Appalachians . 2004 . PhD dissertation . West Virginia University . 10.33915/etd.2106 . 1158308245 .
• Web site: Wolfe . Mark E. . Black Hand Sandstone: A building stone of unique distinction from Richland County, Ohio . . 2010 .
• Steeg . Karl Ver . Black Hand sandstone and conglomerate in Ohio . Geological Society of America Bulletin . 1947 . 58 . 8 . 703 . 10.1130/0016-7606(1947)58[703:BHSACI]2.0.CO;2 .