 | | Report (volume) | | GEORGE OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR BTJIiIiETIN 615 RHODE ISLAND COAL BY GEORGE H. ASHLEY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT............ History of development and use of Rhode Island coal ....................... Early history................. Reason for low heat value of Rhode Island coal......................... 5 7 7 9 11 14...Behavior of Rhode Island coal toward moisture ......................... 37 Utilization of Rhode Island coal...Sketch map of the Rhode Island coal field........................ II. Views at Budlong mine, Cranston, R. |  | | Report (volume) | | Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NORTHEASTERN RHODE ISLAND 286 ROCKS AND M I N E R A L S The adjacent towns of Cumberland and Lincoln...Lincoln in northeastern Rhode Island offer col lecting in several localities, including the Conklin Limestone...Hill mine. T H E T O W N S H I P O F C U M B E R L A N D at the northeast corner of Rhode Island is not...not so famous mineralogically as Cumberland in England; however, there is enough interest ing in this...both the state mineral and the state rock of Rhode Island. Much of this area coincides with the Pawtucket |  | | Report (volume) | | ........................................... Rhode Island...............................................University, South Bethlehem. Rhode Island__Prof. C. W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina__.Dr. Earle Sloan...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.; |  | | Report (volume) | | Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island o GEOLOGICAL 5. I 09 8* Ci PI O i o TJ i i I to & Ol BULLETIN...State of Rhode Island Development Council i M SURVEY I C.to 1295 Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island...1295 Prepared in cooperation with the State of Rhode Island Development Council Lithology, structure, and...geological studies in Rhode Island____._.________.-__.-_-____. Position of Rhode Island in the Appalachian...-___--_Older gneissic rocks of northwestern Rhode Island.____________ Nipsachuck Gneiss------------- |  | | Report (issue) | | AND LIGNITE. KHODE ISLAND ANTHRACITE.1 By GEORGE H. ASHLEY. INTRODUCTION. Rhode Island anthracite has long...paper has been prepared after a study of the Rhode Island anthracite field and summarizes the location...mines in this field. The coal has been known in Rhode Island for 150 years or more and during the last 100...100 years scores of attempts have been made to mine it commercially in many places. With one exception...numerous inquiries for information in regard to Rhode Island coal and its value, the writer visited the field |  | | Book | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation, |  | | Report (issue) | | locality, or civil division (city, village, or county) named for a physical feature is always listed...information is usually self-explanatory, for example: county seat. Feature Class (second column) The terms listed...their definitions. County (third column) This column lists the name of the county in which the entity...place, feature, or area lies in more than one county, the county listed is the one in which the center of...found or, in the case of a stream, valley, or arroyo, the county listed is the one in which the mouth |  | | Report (volume) | | anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...Miller (W J), 17a. See also New York ~dmiralty Island, Alaska: Wright (C W), 06a Adularia: Winchell (N...Judd (E K), 07a; McCalley, 92, 94; Ries, 96b Coosa Valley: Hayes, 95g Warwhoop bank, Ch€)rokee Co.: Brewer...95; Prouty, 09, 12; Smith (E A), 76a; Labausage mine: Evans (A W), 09. Raccoon Mountain field: Gibson...05 Coal Measures, Blount Co.: Gibson, 91 Coosa Valley: Anon, 01 Copper: Brewer, 97e; Lieber, 55; Weed |  | | Report (issue) | | Portsmouth mine. The Narragansett basin is in southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island and structurally...plutonism, which converted some of the coal into graphite and natural coke (Gray and others, 1978). Coal...tectonically thickened. Some of the coal at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, was used to smelt copper imported from Cuba...Pennsylvanian. All the minable coal beds are in the Rhode Island Formation, a graywacke sequence containing as...anthracite. Anthracite is found in the upper Mantanuska Valley where, according to Merritt, there has been extensive |  | | Report (issue) | | San Francisco, California. Daily Grass Valley Union, Nevada County, California. Daily Evening Gazette, Reno...Standard, Eureka, Humboldt County, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 10. 11. 12. County Tribune, California. California...California. Inyo Independent, Inyo County, California. Arizona Gazette, Phoenix, Arizona Territory. Ventura...Yosemite Valley, four of the Big Trees, twenty-one stereoscopic views of the Yosemite Valley, thirty-three...of the ice plant, which grows in Santa Barbara County." Wines. Buena Vista Vinicultural Society of San |  | | Book (edition) | | perfect cleavage parallel to the basal plane, as in graphite, brucite. 5. Irregularities of Crystals. Distortions...is isometric in the diamond, but hexagonal in graphite: of extreme hardness, adamantine lustre, and a...dioxide, its formula E0 2 Includes Carbon (Diamond, Graphite) and carbon dioxide. (Quartz, Si0 2 belongs here...associate rocks, or the regions of active or In the valley of Noto and Mazzaro in extinct volcanoes. Sicily...Teneriife, Java, Hamen. New Zealand, Deception Island, and most active volcanic regions, aiford more |  | | Book (edition) | | zone between two cubic planes; the dodecahedron falls in this 1. The angle zone, being a special case...two rays are most separated when (1) the light falls PERPENDICULAR to the vertical axis. As its inclination...4*15. orthorhombic or monoclinic, G diamond and graphite. Other familiar examples are pyrite and marcasite...iridosmine, IrOs, etc. ; Arsenic bismuth. graphite. ; antimony ; mercury ; 194 DESCRIPTIVE...finer being carried far away slopes or bottom of a valley, or a place where the waters may have eddied, generally |  | | Report (volume) | | introduced for use in North America, the Pacific Island possessions of the United States, and the Trust...America, Greenland, the West Indies, the Pacific Island possessions of the United States, and the Trust...Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Central Railroad, sees. 5-7, T. 11 S., R. 5 E., Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian |  | | Book (edition) | | zone between two cubic planes ; the dodecahedron falls in this The angle 1. zone, being a special case...two rays are most separated when (1) the light falls PERPENDICULAR to the vertical axis. As its inclination...labradorite and albite are taken as indicators. Augite falls at once in the concentrated solution ; if diluted...4'15. orthorhombic or monoclinic, G diamond and graphite. Other familiar examples are pyrite and marcasite...Diamond ; ; iridosmine, IrOs, etc. Arsenic graphite. * See further on p. 420, et seq. ; antimony |  | | Report (volume) | | formation. Carboniferous : Nova Scotia (Cape Breton Island). P. D. Trask and K. F. Mather, 1927 (Wash. Acad...describe) that Macastey black sh. of Anticosti Island is certainly of Utica (Upper Ord.) age. W. H. Twenhofel...sandstone. Permian : Central northern Oklahoma (Bay County). C. N. Gould, 1900 (Kans. Univ. Quart., vol. 9...dolomite. Permian : Central northern Texas (Fisher County). M. G. Cheney, 1929 (Univ. Tex. Bull. 2913, p...subsurface sand, 10 to 50 ft. thick, in Marble Falls ls. (Penn.) of Ranger and other fields of central |  | | Report (issue) | | Clay' County ....... __ . __ ... - .... -·- ................ __ .................. 99 Dubois County .............................. _... _.... 100 Greene County __ . _. . :. .. _.. _............ _____ . _......i01 · Knox County .......... __ ................ -.· ....... _................... Owen County._ .........Perry County ... ____ .................... __ • __ .. _............. : .... ~. _-. Pike County ... _...Gibson County .. _.............. _. _...................... _. ___ . . . . . . . . Sullivan County . _____ |  | | Report (volume) | | .... . The Douglas oil and gas field, Converse County, Wyo., by V. H. Barnett .. The Shoshone River section........... . Oil and gas near Green River, Grand County, Utah, by C. T. Lupton .... . Petroleum near Dayton...Cal., by R. W. Pack ..... . CoAL AND J.IGNITE: Rhode Island anthracite, by G. H ..Ashley ....................... . Coking coal in Powell Mountain, Scott County, Va., by M. R. Campbell. .. The coal resources...the vicinity of Plentywood and· Scobey, Sheridan County, Mont., by C. M. Bauer ....................... |  | | Book (edition) | | 07 Western USA 15m 58,59 North Central USA 1:5m_ 60,61 South Central USA 1:5M 62,63 1:5M USA & Canada:...Hawaii 1:25M&1:5M 66 Florida & South East USA 1:5mM 67 USA: Atlantic Seaboard 1:25M 685 Caribbean 1:10M...AMERICAN SAMOA STATUS: Unincorporated Territory of USA (see UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) AREA: 197 sq km (76...western Europe. ALEUTIAN ISLANDS STATUS: Territory of USA AREA: 17,665 sq km (6,820 sq miles) POPULATION:...UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) ALAND STATUS: Self-governing Island Province of Finland AREA: 1,505 sq km (581 sq miles) |  | | Report (volume) | | Triassio Rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, by John S. Newberry. 1888. 4°. xiv,152pp. 26 pi...meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S. Williams...cents. 16. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, Now York, by JohnM. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 86pp. 3...57 pi. Price 25 cents. 38. Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky, by J. S. Diller. 1887. 8°. 31pp. 1 pi...coal, slate, sandstone, quartz rock, clay, trap, graphite. Coal is either black coal or " glance " or " |  | | Book (edition) | | information from the Flag Research Center, Massachusetts, USA Mr. P.J.M Geelan, Place-name consultant Mr Michael...56,57 Western USA 1:5m 58,59 North CentralUSA 1:5m 60,61 SouthCentral USA 1:m 62,63 USA & Canada: The...California & Hawaii 1:25M&15M 66 Florida & SouthEast USA 15m 67 USA: AtlanticSeaboard 1:25m 68 Caribbean 1:0M 69...the younger members of the STATUS: Self-governing Island Province fast-growing population. of Finland AREA:...principal ALEUTIAN ISLANDS STATUS: Territory of USA AREA: 17,665 sq km (6,820 sq miles) POPULATION: 6 |  | | Book (edition) | | united to the main by shallow waters. Vancouver's Island and others north are similarly a part of North...crossing the equator, lie train extends to Easter Island and Sala-y-Gomez, in longitudes 110° and 105°...area. its level, great depressed Cas- Death's Valley, east of the Sierra Nevada, California, about...contrast with higher precise altitude. The Mis- Valley of the great interior region of the North American...in altitude north of the Mohawk Valley (an east-and-west valley), and 2,000 to 2,500 feet south of |  | | Report (issue) | | neh IBEUSHAZZARS WITH ask a Ae Se et ee Oe ee ae MINE SRESCUEAIN 2THEl@OBUR aDHA TOBINGao oeeeies te eee...IBANINOCK COUNTY i xcec2 oh cccen eke tee ceca ksee see oe coe ee Beeroeeree BEAR SIGAKE: COUNTY: cn 625...625 Se a, oe ee BENE WAH COUNTY: coristoc a cers ows thea ts eared eee econ ee STN GET A\Miig, CO WINIEXS...WINIEXS se oe no EN ce IS POE ee BiATNE COUNTY 64 ee 2 Br Pe 0s ee SOE eee ee ek ek IBOISEL. COUNDY” 35.06...2465. ol, ee, Le ee a ee ks es eee IBONINEVIELE COUNTY ©2.52 35 sete oss Re BOUIN DAR Y {CO UINIDY 1S |  | | Book (edition) | | united to the main by shallow waters. Vancouver's Island and others north are similarly a part of North...The the equator, lie train extends to Easter Island longitudes 110° and 105° "W., a distance of in...area. its level, great depressed Cas- Death's Valley, east of the Sierra Nevada, California, about...than by any precise altitude. sissippi The Mis- Valley of the great interior region of the North American...in altitude north of the Mohawk Valley (an east-and-west valley), and 2,000 to 2,500 feet south of |  | | Report (volume) | | 48 Pennsylvania___________-_______________ 49 Rhode Island ___________________________ 49 Vermont_____...Kalamazoo County_________________________ Lapeer County __ ___________ ______ Luce County_____ _ _ ______________...__ Lake County____________________________ Lee County ____________________________ Mason and Tazewell...features________________________ Alien County ____________________________ Dekalb County ___________________________...Columbia County ______ -____ ____ Crawford County _______________-_________ Philadelphia County ________________________ |
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