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Allegheny river anticlinal Apollo arch Armstrong county axis Barren Measures basin bench black slate Brady's Bend Buffalo creek Buhrstone Butler county Carbonate Clarion county cliffs coal bed coke Cowanshannock creek Crooked creek crosses deposit east exposed exposures farm feet thick Ferriferous limestone Fireclay fork Freeport Lower coal Freeport sandstone Freeport Upper coal Freeport Upper limestone geological Glade run hills horizon impure Indiana county interval iron Johnstown cement Kellersburg Kiskiminitas Kittanning Lower coal Kittanning Middle Kittanning Upper coal layers Leechburg lime Lower Barren Lower Productive rocks Mahoning creek Mahoning furnace Mahoning sandstone Manorville massive McCreath miles mill mined mouth Mud Lick nearly northwest outcrop line Parker City Pine creek Pottsville Pottsville Conglomerate Productive Coal Measures Putneyville pyrites quarry ravine Red Bank Red Bank creek region road Roaring run roof shales shaly slopes Stewardson stone strata stratum stream synclinal township uplands valley water level
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Page 327 - REPORT OF PROGRESS IN THE FAYETTE AND WESTMORELAND DISTRICT OF THE BITUMINOUS COAL FIELDS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — 1876. By JJ Stevenson ; pp. 437, illustrated by 50 wood-cuts and 3 county maps, colored. Part I. Eastern Allegheny County, and Fayette and Westmoreland Counties, west from Chestnut Ridge. Price, $1 40 ; postage, $0 20.
Page 328 - REPORT OF PROGRESS IN 1879. 8 vo., pp. 232. The Geology of CLARION COUNTY, by H. Martyn Chance, with colored geological map of county, a map of the Anticlinals and OIL BELT, a contoured map of the Old River Channel at Parker, 83 local sections figured in the text, and 4 page plates. Price, |0 43 ; postage, $0 12.
Page 325 - OF REPORTS. A. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS in Pennsylvania and other States. By JP Lesley. With appendix, containing Annual Reports for 1374 and 1875 ; pp.
Page 327 - RIVER VALLEY IN FAYETTE AND WESTMORELAND COUNTIES, with Geological Notes of the Coal and Iron Ore Beds, from Surveys, by Charles A. Young; by Franklin Platt. To which are appended: I. A Report on Methods of Coking, by John Fulton. II. A Report on the use of Natural Gas in the Iron Manufacture, by John B. Pearse, Franklin Platt, and Professor Sadtler. Pp. 252. Price, $1 00 ; postage, $0 12.
Page 325 - REPORT OF PROGRESS IN 1877. The Geology of LANCASTER COUNTY, with an atlas containing a colored geological map of the county, local map of the GAP NICKEL MINE, map and sections of the East Bank of Susquehanna River ; other geological sections across the county, and geological colored maps of York and Lancaster counties. By Persifor Frazer. 8 vo., pp. 350. Price of Report, $0 89 ; postage, $0 16.
Page 326 - REPORT OF PROGRESS IN THE CAMBRIA AND SOMERSET DISTRICT OF THE BITUMINOUS COAL FIELDS of Western Pennsylvania — 1875. By F. and WG Platt. Pp. 194, illustrated with 84 wood-cuts and 4 maps and sections.
Page 326 - F. REPORT OF PROGRESS IN THE JUNIATA DISTRICT on Fossil Iron Ore Beds of Middle Pennsylvania. By John H. Dewees. With a report of the AUGHWICK VALLEY AND EAST BROAD TOP DISTRICT. By CA Ashburner. 1874-8. Illustrated with 7 Geological maps and 19 sections. 8 vo., pp. 305.
Page iv - FA GENTH — Mineralogist and Chemist at Philadelphia. FA GENTH, Jr — Aid in the Laboratory. AS McCREATH— Chemist, in charge of the Laboratory of the Survey, 223 Market street, Harrisburg. JOHN M. STINSON— Aid in the Laboratory at Harrisburg.
Page 327 - Price in cloth, $0 65 ; postage, $0 18. N. REPORT OF PROGRESS — 1875-6-7. Two hundred Tables of Elevation above tide level of the Railroad Stations, Summits and Tunnels ; Canal Locks and Dams, River Riffles, &c., in and around Pennsylvania ; with map ; pp. 279. By Charles Allen. Price, $0 70 ; postage, $0 15. O. CATALOGUE OF THE GEOLOGICAL MUSUEM — 1874-5-6-7. By Charles E. Hall. Part I. Collection of Rock Specimens. Nos. 1 to 4,264.
Page 327 - REPORT OF PROGRESS IN 1877. The Geology of LAWRENCE COUNTY, to which is appended a Special Report on the CORRELATION OF THE COAL MEASURES in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. 8 vo., pp. 336, with a colored Geological Map of the county, and 134 vertical sections.
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| Title | Report of Progress in Armstrong County, Volume 29 Volume 5 of Pennsylvania. Geological survey, 2d. [Report of progress Report of Progress in Armstrong County, William Greenough Platt Volume 5 of Report of progress, 2d Pennsylvania. Geological survey Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, Geological Survey of Pennsylvania |
| Author | William Greenough Platt |
| Publisher | Board of Commissioners, 1880 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Length | 338 pages |
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