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Collection of Coal Field Measured Sections from Tennessee

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Summary

This Collection of Coal Field Measured Sections consists of handwritten descriptions of rock unit sequences measured along roads, railroads, trails, and strip mine highwalls in the Tennessee coal fields. Most of the collection is composed of sections measured by Dr. Harold Wanless during his study of the southern Appalachian coal fields in the late 1930's. Most of the sections are unpublished, except for being included as columnar section illustrations in - Wanless, H.R., 1946, Pennsylvanian geology of a part of the southern Appalachian coal field: Geological Society of America Memoir, 13, 162 p. Other measured sections in this collection originate from published and unpublished sources.

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Data Owner :
Tennessee Geological Survey
Creator :
Barry Miller
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Barry Miller, Ronald Zurawski

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Tennessee_P1341_Coal_Field_Measured_Sections_Collection_2020.csv 12.02 KB text/csv

Material Request Instructions

Access to the Collection of Coal Field Measured Sections from Tennessee can be obtained by contacting the Tennessee Geological Survey.

Tennessee Geological Survey
Knoxville Environmental Field Office
3711 Middlebrook Pike
Knoxville, TN 37921

Phone: 865-594-6035

Additional ways to contact the survey can be found at http://www.tennessee.gov/environment/section/geo-geology

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This collection record was derived from a survey of State Geological Survey organizations conducted under the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program. Final Harvest from State Inventory on Fri Nov 12 16:09:07 CST 2010

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sourceSystem CSC 1089203
UniqueKey State Inventory P1341

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