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Salt Sands

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The resistant Homewood and Conoquenessing sandstones, known to drillers as the Salt Sands, form the canyon walls and Blackwater Falls. These sands produce oil and natural gas in West Virginia and commercial brines on the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers.
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Blackwater Falls State Park, West Virginia
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