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Radioactive Coal and Shale of Pennsylvanian and Permian Age in Northern West Virginia

Description: Report discussing radioactive coal in northern West Virginia. From Abstract: "The commercially important coal beds in the Monongahela series of Pennsylvanian age and coal and shale of the Dunkard series of Permian age were examined and sampled in eight counties in northern West Virginia."
Date: December 1954
Creator: Patterson, E. D.
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Radioactivity of Coal and Associated Rock in the Coal Fields of Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia

Description: The following report covers a reconnaissance study that was made of radioactivity of coal and associated rock in the coal fields of eastern Kentucky and Logan Mingo counties, W. Va. Samples of coal, carbonaceous shale, marine shale, flint clay, and dike rock were discovered and radioactivity within these samples were measured.
Date: June 1953
Creator: Welch, Stewart W.
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Radioactivity of Coal and Associated Rock in the Coal Fields of Eastern Kentucky

Description: Report discussing radioactivity measurements of samples of coal and associated rock that were collected during a reconnaissance study in the coal fields of eastern Kentucky, as well as Logan and Mingo counties, West Virginia.
Date: June 1953
Creator: Welch, Stewart W.
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Reconnaissance for Uranium in Coal and Shale in Southern West Virginia and Southwestern Virginia

Description: Report discussing the U.S. Geological Survey's investigation of uraniferous coals and shales found in southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. Information regarding the general area, stratigraphy, structural geology, radioactivity of measured sections, radioactivity of collected samples, and conclusions are included.
Date: July 1953
Creator: Snider, John L.
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Shorter Contributions to General Geology, 1929

Description: From introduction: This report describes the deposits of analcite in the Green River formation, to compare them with other similar deposits, and to present them with other similar deposits, and to present the observations and inferences that led him to explain them as alteration products of volcanic ash that fell into an ancient saline lake. The report also records the occurrence of several thin beds of sepiolite, or meerschaum, in the Green River formation and presents new data on the molds of… more
Date: 1930
Creator: Mendenhall, W. C.
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A Flood Model for the Tug Fork Basin, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia

Description: From abstract: This study used a rainfall-runoff model to determine if land-use changes associated with surface mining in the Tug Fork basin have affected basin streamflow characteristics.
Date: 1983
Creator: Doyle, W. Harry, Jr.; Curwick, Philip B. & Flynn, Kathleen M.
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