Geology and Coal Resources of the Coal-Bearing Rocks of Alabama (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Geology and Coal Resources of the Coal-Bearing Rocks of AlabamaThe Parkwood Formation is of Late Mississippian and Early Pennsylvanian age in the Cahaba field and is probably of Early Pennsylvanian age in the Warrior and Plateau fields. The Parkwood ranges in thickness from 460 feet in the northeast part of the Coosa field to feet in the northeast part of the Cahaba; it thins abruptly northwestward and ranges from 0 to more than 600 feet in thickness in the Warrior and Plateau coal fields. The Parkwood Forma tion contains a few thin lenticular coal beds, one of which the Cliff coal bed, has been mined in several places in the Plateau and Warner fields.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.