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" In some instances a single seam of coal in these strata is sixty feet thick ; and near the middle of the valley, between the Sharp and Broad mountains no less than 65 seams have been counted. The bituminous coal-field, embracing the western part of Pennsylvania,... "
Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical - Page 267
by John Phillips - 1885
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Elementary Geology

Edward Hitchcock - Fossils - 1841 - 372 pages
...the Sharp and Broad Mountains, no less than 65 seams have been counted. The bituminous coal field, embracing the western part of Pennsylvania, and a part of Ohio, extends over an area of 24000 square miles : the largest accumulation of carbonaceous matter probably in the world. In fact...
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The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation

Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...middle of the valley, between the Sharp and Broad mountains no less than 65 seams have been counted. The bituminous coal-field, embracing the western part...Pennsylvania, and a part of Ohio, extends over an area of twenty-four thousand square miles ; the largest accumulation of carbonaceous matter probably in the...
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Student and Family Miscellany, Volumes 7-8

1854 - 402 pages
...the Sharp and Broad mountains, no less than 65 scams have been counted. "The bituminous ooal field, embracing the western part of Pennsylvania, and a...: the largest accumulation of carbonaceous matter probably in the world. In fact the bituminous coal measures can probably be traced; almost continuously,...
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Manual of Geology: Practical and Theoretical, Volume 2

John Phillips - Geology - 1855 - 706 pages
...primary rocks and metamorphic ridges, bituminous at a distance from them. " The bituminous coal field, embracing the western part of Pennsylvania and a part...carbonaceous matter in the world. In fact, the bituminous coal measures can probably be traced almost continuously from Pennsylvania to the Mississippi, and...
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The gallery of nature: a tour through creation, Volume 28

Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...middle of the valley, between the Sharp and Broad mountains no less than 65 seams have been counted. The bituminous coal-field, embracing the western part...Pennsylvania, and a part of Ohio, extends over an area of twenty-four thousand square miles ; the largest accumulation of carbonaceous matter probably in the...
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