U.S. Geological Survey Professional PaperU.S. Government Printing Office, 1963 - Geology |
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aquifers average bed in Belmont bedrock Belmont County bench calcareous carbonate clay coarse Coastal Plain colluvium Conemaugh formation contains Creek Delaware River Delaware River basin deposits depth discharge dissolved solids drainage drift border Dunkard group eastern Belmont County feet thick Fishpot flow Geol Geological glacial gravel gray ground water ground-water horizon impure inches Jersey Jollytown Kirkwood Kirkwood Township layers Lehigh River locally lower massive miles Monongahela formation mudstone northeastern occur Ohio outcrop overlying parent material Pease Township pebbles Pennsylvania percent Pittsburgh coal bed Podzolic precipitation ranges recharge Redstone region Richland Township rocks runoff sand sandstone member Schuylkill River sediments shale shaly siltstone silty Sols Bruns Acides storage strata stratigraphic streams strongly weathered surface thin Township pl U.S. Highway 40 underclay Uniontown upper Valley Heads Washington coal bed Washington limestone member Washington Township Waynesburg Waynesburg coal bed Wisconsin drift York York Township
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Page 91 - Moist Btu refers to coal containing its natural bed moisture but not including visible water on the surface of the coaL A It is recognized that there may be noncaking varieties in each group of the bituminous class.
Page 56 - When moist, crushes easily under gentle pressure between thumb and forefinger and can be pressed together into a lump. Firm. — When moist, crushes under moderate pressure between thumb and forefinger, but resistance is distinctly noticeable. Plastic.— When wet, readily deformed by moderate pressure but can be pressed into a lump; will form a "wire" when rolled between thumb and forefinger.
Page 39 - ... is defined as the rate of flow of water, in gallons per day, through a cross-sectional area of...
Page 189 - Observe, record and study the effect of developments on the Delaware River and its tributaries upon water supply and other necessary, proper and desirable uses; and (f) Make periodic reports to this Court, not less frequently than annually, and send copies thereof to the Governors of Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, and to the Mayor of the City of New York. 2. Specific Duties with Respect to the Montague Release Formula.
Page 189 - If and when the State of New Jersey has built and is utilizing one or more reservoirs to store waters of the Delaware River or its tributaries for the purpose of diversion to another watershed, it may withdraw water from the Delaware River or its tributaries into such impounding reservoirs without limitation except during the months of July, August, September and October of any year, when not more than 100 mgd as a monthly average and not more than 120 million gallons in any day shall be withdrawn....
Page 109 - Jr., 1950, Field guide for the special field conference on the stratigraphy, sedimentation and nomenclature of the Upper Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian strata (Monongahela, Washington and Greene series) in the northern portion of the Dunkard Basin of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania: West Virginia Geol.
Page 91 - This classification does not include a few coals, principally nonbanded varieties, which have unusual physical and chemical properties and which come within the limits of fixed carbon or calorific value of the high-volatile bituminous and subbituminous ranks.
Page 92 - Indicated reserves are reserves for which tonnage is computed partly from specific measurements and partly from projection of visible data for a reasonable distance on geologic evidence.
Page 189 - III-B-1 (b) of this decree, the River Master, in co-operation with the City of New York, shall, by appropriate observation and estimates, perform the following duties: (a) Determine the average times of transit of the flow between the release works of the several reservoirs of the City and Montague and between the release works of other storage reservoirs in the watershed and Montague; (b) Make a daily computation of what the average flow observed on the previous day at Montague would have been,...
Page 188 - City's estimate of anticipated consumption shall not exceed by more than 7^4 billion gallons the actual consumption in any previous calendar year ; and its safe yield in any such year, obtainable without pumping, shall be estimated at not less than 1,355 mgd after the Neversink and East Branch reservoirs are put into operation ; and at not less than 1,665 mgd after the Cannonsville reservoir is put into operation. If, at any time after the completion of the Cannonsville reservoir and prior to the...