Bulletin of the United States Geological SurveyThe Survey., 1908 - Geology |
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Page 151 - Stratigraphy of the bituminous coal field in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, by IC White. Bull. No. 65, 1891, pp. 212.
Page 91 - ... hundredweight of coke per ton of medium quality, and quite available for heatings in furnaces or producers in combination with that from a bituminous coal. The coal contains about the average amount of sulphur, but a very small per cent of water. Compared with main Lesmahagow cannel coal, represented by 100 (calculated on the basis of production of 13,000 cubic feet of gas and 1,535.5 pounds of sperm per ton, and having regard also to the value of secondary products and the cost of purification...
Page 151 - OHIO. >hy of the bituminous coal field in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, by IC White. Bull. No. 65, 1891, pp. 212. Huntington folio, West Virginia-Ohio, description, by MR Campbell. Geologic Atlas US, folio 69, 1900, pp. 5-6. The bituminous coal field of Ohio, by RM Haseltine. Twenty-second Ann. Rept., pt. 3, 1902, pp. 215-226. Coal resources of the Kenova quadrangle, by WC Phalen. Bull. No. 285. 1906, pp. 259-268. Economic geology of the Kenova quadrangle in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia,...
Page 49 - Coal 24 48 A thickness of 4 feet 10 inches to 5 feet is reported from other country banks in the immediate vicinity. In some places, at least, this coal is sufficiently thick and free from impurities to make it valuable, but in other places it is so badly split up by impure partings that it will have little value except for country trade. The following two sections illustrate this impure phase : Sections of Cat Creek coal bed. Inches. Shale, black, containing small stringers of coal 1 Coal...
Page 103 - Trace Branch. Scale, 1 Inch = 5 feet. and WB Boggess, and at Mr. Clark's bank it was reported 4 feet thick. Nothing is known of its character outside of the inconsiderable area bounded by Little Fork, Brush Fork, and Critches Creek, and in this district the acreage of cannel coal is not large, owing to its position very near the hilltops. It is, however, a valuable cannel coal, which will be worked in the future when cheaper transportation facilities are obtainable. CAT CREEK COAL (NO. 5). Extent...
Page 117 - To make first-class refractory brick 67 to 80 per cent of flint clay is used, depending on the use to which the product is to be put, the remainder being plastic clay.
Page 122 - The iron ores of this region are chiefly earthy carbonates, spathic ores, or siderites, but on the outcrop and at variable distances in, depending largely on the porous or nonporous character of the roof, the ores have been altered to the hydrous ferric oxide, limonite. The ores may be classified as follows: (1) Limestone ores, (2) block ores, (3) kidney ores, (4) black band ores. Limestone ores are those which occur upon or very near the top of a limestone stratum. In many localities they occupy...
Page 127 - BLOCK ORES. Geologic position. — Most of the block ores are found in the Pottsville formatioa and in the lower part of the Allegheny formation. They have been separated by Moore into two groups with reference to their stratigraphic position — the upper block ores and the lower block ores. The former occupy the interval from 90 feet below the Vanport limestone to about 50 feet above it, and the lower block ores are confined to the lower 125 feet of the Potts'ville. The skeleton section (fig. 20,...
Page 151 - States, classification of coals, production, and marketing. The northern Appalachian coal field, by David White, MR Campbell, and RM Haseltine. Twenty-second Ann. Rept., pt. 3, 1902, pp. 119-226. The southern Appalachian coal field, bv CW Hayes.
Page 152 - Gives results of producer-gas tests on coal from Paintsville, Ky., and Toms Creek, Va. The Elkhorn coal field, Kentucky, by RW Stone. Bull. No. 316, 1907, pp. 42-54. The Russell Fork coal field, Virginia, by RW Stone. Bull. No. 316, 1907, pp. 55-67. Coal mining at Dante, Va., by RW Stone. Bull. No. 316, 1907, pp. 68-75. Elkhorn and Russell Fork coal fields, Kentucky and Virginia, by RW Stone.