Report of Progress ...Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, 1880 |
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Allegheny river Alton coal group Alton group Alton Lower Alton Middle Alton Upper coal anticlinal axis Bituminous coal Black slate Blue slate Bond Vein bottom Bradford oil sand brown SS Buffalo Coal Buttsville Cameron county Chemung Clarion clay Clermont bed Clermont coal bed coal basin coal measures column containing Dalson's Dark depth Detritus drill hole east elevation Elk county farm Fireclay Forest county geological gray sand Gray shale Gray slate Hamlin Hamlin township Howard Hill interval iron JOHNSON RUN SANDSTONE KINZUA CREEK SANDSTONE Lafayette Lafayette township limestone Marshburg Upper Mauch Chunk McKean county micaceous mile Norwich OLEAN CONGLOMERATE Olive shales outcrop pebbles Pocono Pottsville Pottsville conglomerate record RED CATSKILL Red shale Red soil reported road sandrock sandy shaft Slate and shell Smethport strata stratum SUB-OLEAN CONGLOMERATE summit tion top of formation township Upper coal bed valley vicinity White SS Wilcox
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Seite iii - ARIO PARDEE, ---------- Hazleton. WILLIAM A. INGHAM, Philadelphia. HENRY S. ECKERT, Reading. HENRY McCoRMiCK, Harrisburg. JAMES MACFARLANE, Towanda. JOHN B. PEARSE, - - - Philadelphia. JOSEPH WILLCOX, Philadelphia.
Seite iii - JOSEPH WILLCOX, Philadelphia. Hon. DANIEL J. MORRELL, - Johnstown. Louis W. HALL, --------- Harrisburg. SAMUEL Q. BROWN, - - Pleasantville. SECRETARY OF THE BOARD. WILLIAM A. INGHAM, ------- Philadelphia. STATE GEOLOGIST. PETER LESLEY, Philadelphia.
Seite 157 - ... one hundred feet in the air, and again retiring within the bowels, of the earth to acquire fresh power for a new effort. This phenomenon is called 'blowing,' and is very troublesome and vexatious to the manufacturer.
Seite 157 - The water now flows into the well till the pressure of gas in its reservoir has increased to such an extent that it thrusts out of the hole the larger column of water to a height of from 85 to 115 feet. The smaller column of water is probably produced by the gas coming from the smaller vein at 1200 feet depth, while the larger column is thrown up by the gas coming from the greater vein at a depth of 1600 feet. But, of course, neither the one nor the other column is produced by either of the gas veins...