Economic Geology of the Kenova Quadrangle, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia |
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Page 148 - Webbville, 5.8 miles south of, south of small house near south forks of road, on west side, 30 feet from center, in sandstone ledge ; bronze tablet stamped "916 K 1900" 914.926 Cherokee, 0.5 mile north of mouth of Cherokee Creek, east of road, south of small house, in sandstone ledge; bronze tablet stamped "646 K 1900" 645.587 3LAINE WESTWARD ALONG ELAINE CREEK TO MARTHA, THENCE NORTHWARD VTA SARAH TO WILLARD.
Page 56 - group, though it may be higher. Development. — The " Little Cannel " coal has been opened near the head of Threemile Creek and at one time was mined and shipped from this locality over the old Chatteroi Railroad. About 5,000 tons are reported to have been shipped before the road's alignment was changed to its present location along Levisa Fork. Operations ceased as a result of the financial panic in 1893, and since then nothing on a commercial scale has been attempted. A short distance south of...
Page 146 - Ashland, Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. station, on Carter avenue between 12th and 13th streets, south side of building, 2 feet higher than ground; bronze tablet stamped "556 K" 556.431 From Ashland along Chesapeake & Ohio Ry.
Page 115 - 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 47 - Bone i 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 145 - CARTER, LAWRENCE, AND ELLIOTT COUNTIES. The elevations in the following list are based upon a bronze tablet at Kenova, W. Va., in the west side of the doorsill at the entrance to the men's waiting room at Union Station. The elevation of this tablet is accepted as 566.818 feet above mean sea level. The initial height from which these elevations are derived is that determined for BM 316 A of the Ohio River Survey, Corps of Engineers, USA, at Catlettsburg...
Page 146 - Fuller, 300 feet north of station, 5 feet west of railroad at east edge of highway, 30 feet north of white house, in sandstone ledge; bronze tablet stamped " 572 K 1900
Page 12 - Pleintocene deposits. — None of this region lies within the glacial boundary, but there are deposits within the area which are considered of Pleistocene age. Just back of the city of Ashland is a district known as the Flatwoods, where the hills are flat and do not rise to an altitude of over 700 feet. These flat lands are covered with deposits of sand, gravel, quartz, and chert bowlders, some of which are 12 inches in diameter. These represent residual material from the remains of older crystalline...
Page 88 - Hunnewell cannel coal is as follows : " The coal is black, possesses considerable luster and yellowish-brown streak. The fracture is slaty, coarse, and partly semiscalariform, with numerous impressions of stigmaria. The cross fracture inclines to conchoidal, with deposits of calcium carbonate, clay, and iron bisulphide [pyrite] on the natural partings [joint planes]. It is massive, compact, and very cohesive. On the fire it does not intumesce. The color of the ash is pale brown. It is well defined...
Page 122 - Owing to their purity, uniformity, richness in iron, and ease in working they have been among the most highly valued of all the iron ores in this region. Block ore and kidney ore are so called from their physical appearance. The former cleaves into more or less square or rectangular prisms when raised from its bed ; the latter derives its name from its peculiar kidney shapes. Both varieties occur as unaltered carbonates or siderites, except where oxidized to limonites on or near the outcrop. The...