Special Report on the Coke Manufacture of the Youghiogheny River Valley in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties With Geological Notes of the Coal and Iron Ore Beds (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Special Report on the Coke Manufacture of the Youghiogheny River Valley in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties: With Geological Notes of the Coal and Iron Ore Beds

This general drainage westward has been produced, geologi cally, by the great anticlinal of Chestnut Ridge, which throws l. The Upper Coal Measures; - 2. The Pittsburgh bed - 3. The Barren Measures under it - 4. The Lower Coal Measures next lower, and 5. The Conglomerate (no. XII) into the air; while it upheaves, in a long straight north-east line, the Sub Carboniferous rocks (xi, X, ) in the shape of a mountain ridge with broad ?attish top, to the height of about feet above the river bed at Connellsville, and about feet above the ocean level.1'

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