Bulletin - United States Geological Survey (111-121) - Paperback

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 39 ercial impoT- which carries lery counties, , i fit be pres- Pi'uniiigton fu iu tlie sec- ell mountain, peued on -the 45ek and about "ler the iiioun- not be deter- 'e varied from e Pennington e. The possi-;ermined only a that on Me- "d to admit of Jit Pennington ted, but none 3. One of the -; P ue(l l -'on- distance, but ) of coal we're Si or no good ex- 'Bee rock," or is shales expo- Louisville and itatives of the ve the heavy u ches to 3 feet and Nashville id of the same oth these coals, te their normal At Little Stone gap the staiu of two small seams of coal shows in the road below the middle of this formation, E 03 aud 04. They appear to be about 3 feet thick aud G inches thick respectively, with san,, .tone between them. A coal in this formation is reported in the Cracker neck, on the South fork of Powell river, .on the north face of Powell mountain, but it was not seen. It is probably near the same horizon as the heavy coal in Big Stone gap. In the road over High knob, just above Stony creek, a small coal shows, which is probably not over IS inches thick and about 250 feet below tho top of the. conglomerate; but this measure is uncertain, as the exact top was not determined here. The next place toward the east where a conglomerate coal was seen is at William Osborn's, on Powell mountain, at the head of McGee creek trail, N 1. A coal shows at Osbom's house and it is said to be 4 feet thick, though only 18 inches were seen. This is immediately below the top conglomerate or Bee rock, and is in the same stratigraphie position as the bed noted by Mr. Stevenson at Pennington gap. On the state road, just above Little Stony creek, two or three small seams show by their staiu in the road, ? 1, 2, aud 3, one of which i...