A Revision of the Bituminous Coal Measures of Clearfield County, Volume 31 |
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analysis Ansonville anticlinal anticlinal axis average specimen bank Barren measures Beaver Run bed of coal bench Black slate Black slate roof Bony coal Branch R. R. Cambria county cent Centre county Chest creek Clarion sandstone clay Clearfield county Clearfield creek coal measures Coal Run Coalport Coke Colliery Color of ash Conglomerate Curwensville east elevation fallen shut feet above tide feet of coal Fire-clay floor Fixed carbon four feet thick Freeport Lower coal Freeport Upper coal geological Girard township gray hill Houtzdale Interval iron Johnstown Cement Bed Karthaus Kittanning Lower Coal-Bed Kittanning Middle Coal Kittanning Upper coal layer lies lime Limestone Little Clearfield creek Mahoning Sandstone Mapleton Morrisdale Moshannon Moshannon Creek north-east Osceola outcrop Phillipsburg probably Report H Ridge road rock Sandy Second Basin Shales short distance slaty south-east south-west Sulphur summits Susquehanna river three feet thick township upper bed Volatile matter Wallacetown Water water-level
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