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Depositional and structural history of the Pennsylvania anthracite region
Gordon H. Wood, Thomas M. Kehn and Jane R. Eggleston
Depositional and structural history of the Pennsylvania anthracite region (in Paleoenvironmental and tectonic controls in coal-forming basins of the United States, Paul C. Lyons (editor) and Charles L. Rice (editor))
Special Paper - Geological Society of America (1986) 210: 31-47
Depositional and structural history of the Pennsylvania anthracite region (in Paleoenvironmental and tectonic controls in coal-forming basins of the United States, Paul C. Lyons (editor) and Charles L. Rice (editor))
Special Paper - Geological Society of America (1986) 210: 31-47
Index Terms/Descriptors
- alluvial plains
- anthracite
- Appalachian Plateau
- Appalachians
- biostratigraphy
- Carboniferous
- coal
- coal seams
- controls
- economic geology
- fluvial features
- folds
- Invertebrata
- Mauch Chunk Formation
- Mesozoic
- Mississippian
- North America
- organic residues
- Paleozoic
- Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvanian
- Permian
- Plantae
- Pottsville Group
- sedimentary petrology
- sedimentary rocks
- sedimentation
- structural controls
- synclines
- Triassic
- United States
- Upper Mississippian
- Valley and Ridge Province
- Llewellyn Formation
Latitude & Longitude
Abstract
The Pennsylvania Anthracite region contains numerous thick, extensive, low-sulfur coal beds of Pennsylvanian age. These coal beds are the result of the accumulation of swamp vegetation, and deposition of fine- to coarse-grained clastics in a terrestrial, rapidly sinking asymmetric basin, whose source area lay to the southeast of the Anthracite region. The beds in this basin were extensively folded and faulted in Permian-Triassic time as the strata above a basal decollement were thrust northwestward.
ISSN: 0072-1077
EISSN: 2331-219X
Coden: GSAPAZ
Serial Title: Special Paper - Geological Society of America
Serial Volume: 210
Title: Depositional and structural history of the Pennsylvania anthracite region
Title: Paleoenvironmental and tectonic controls in coal-forming basins of the United States
Author(s): Wood, Gordon H., Jr.Kehn, Thomas M.Eggleston, Jane R.
Author(s): Lyons, Paul C.editor
Author(s): Rice, Charles L.editor
Affiliation: 6115 Ramsgate Rd.,
Bethesda, MD,
United States
Affiliation: U. S. Geol. Surv.,
Reston, VA,
United States
Pages: 31-47
Published: 1986
Text Language: English
Publisher: Geological Society of America (GSA),
Boulder, CO,
United States
References: 40
DOI:
10.1130/SPE210-p31
Accession Number: 1987-032267
Categories: Petrology of coal
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. 1 table, sects., charts, geol. sketch maps
N39°43'00" - N42°17'60", W80°31'60" - W74°40'00"
Secondary Affiliation: U. S. Geol. Surv.,
USA,
United States
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute.
Update Code: 1987
Program Name: USGSOPNon-USGS publications with USGS authors
