Economic Geology of the Beaver Quadrangle, Pennsylvania: (southern Beaver and Northwestern Allegheny Counties)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - 132 Seiten |
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30 feet 36 inches Ames limestone barrels first day Beaver County Beaver Falls Beaver quadrangle Beaver River beneath Berea Big Injun Bituminous shale Blockhouse Run Brady Run Brighton Brookville Brush Run Burgoon clay bed Company Darlington Darlington coal deposits drilled east exposed exposures Fallston farm feet sections feet thick fire brick Fire clay Forest Oil fork Freeport coal sections Freeport sandstone gas sands geologic Georgetown Gordon half a mile Hookstown Hundred-foot inches section inches thick section Industry Island Run limestone locality Lower Kittanning coal Mahoning sandstone measures Mill Creek mined Monaca mouth northeast northwest region occurs Ohio River Ohioville oil and gas outcrop paving brick Phillis Island Pittsburg Pottery Pottsville Raccoon Creek railroad ravine reported road Rochester rock salt water seam Service Creek Sewer Pipe shaly Shannopin shows Sixmile Run slaty Smiths Ferry South Beaver Township southeast streams terrace thin Township Upper Freeport coal Vanport
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Seite 23 - In describing these folds the upward-bending arch is called an anticline and the downward-bending trough is called a syncline. The axis of a fold is that line which at every point occupies the highest part of the anticline or the lowest part of the syncline, and from which .the strata dip in an anticline or toward which they dip in a syncline.
Seite 93 - BEAVER QUADRANGLE. BEAVER, WEST ALONG HIGHWAYS, VIA DAWSON TRIANGULATION STATION, TO BLACK HAWK, THENCE SOUTH, VIA FAIRVIEW TO INDUSTRY. Beaver, Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad bridge over Ohio river, land pier on right shore of river, 3 inches below top of nineteenth course of stone from top of pier and 3 feet east of west side of pier; seat an southwest end of land pier marked thus: "USBM...
Seite 66 - Lower Kittanning horizon. Average sample. NW Lord, analyst. 4. Shale and fire-clay mixture, from the AO Jones Company, Zanesville, Ohio ; Kittanning horizon. NW Lord, analyst. 5. Shales used by Bucyrus Brick and Terra Cotta Company, mined at Glouster, Ohio ; horizon of Cambridge (near Ames) limestone.
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Seite 76 - Gray and white sandstone 25 6 8. Black rock, hard 15 9. Fire clay and shales 5 10. Black slate (gas) 6 11. Shale (gas and oil) 13 12. Coal 1 13. Fireclay 10 14. Slate and shale 25 15. Hard, white sandstone 61 16. Black shale 10 17. Fine-grained sandstone 19 18.
Seite 18 - ... Allegheny County, where it has been extensively mined, but in the Beaver quadrangle it occurs very irregularly. It is best developed in a reported 2 to 7 foot bed of cannel and bituminous coal in the river bank southeast of Georgetown, where it was mined about 1875 on the property of Mr. Peters. Here "the upper half is an impure cannel, while the lower half approaches more nearly to semicannel."« It is reported that oil was made from this coal before the discovery of petroleum.