Field Notebook: Illinois, Indiana, kentucky, Missouri, Wyoming, Pennsylvania 1909
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Sept 16-1909 Friday Started last on the P.R.R. to Blairsville Intersectin. At 7.10 A.M. then walked east to Bolliver. In the first cut east of the Intersection one sees a coal about 2 feet thick, filled abruptly above by dark shales about 10 feet thick and then a thick series of sandstones. The coal rests on a greenish shale and comes in suddenly. This coal is in the Allegheny series. Dip to northeast. In the east end of this cut one gets a fine view of the Potterville followed by the Lower Kittanning coal. First there is a thick series of green sandstone passing gradually into shales that are olive colored. These may be 20 feet thick followed suddenly by the coal about 3 feet thick. Beneath the coal is the gelium clay, of which I have a sample, that is about 1/2 inch thick. Above the coal stops as suddenly but here the shales are very dark green to bituminous. The coal is not clear as there are mud streaks in it. In the sandstone here there is a hollow and at the base of the hollow is very impure coal. This SS bedded but ways to center. cm bedded SS Coal.