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Anthracite Coal in the Lower Susquehanna Valley

Anthracite Coal in the Lower Susquehanna Valley. Visual Environmental Education Guide. Anthracite Coal. Formation of Anthracite Coal. grantowngrammar.highland.sch.uk. coal.infomine.com. The Anthracite fields are known as the Northern, Eastern-middle, Western-middle, and Southern fields.

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Anthracite Coal in the Lower Susquehanna Valley

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  1. Anthracite Coal in the Lower Susquehanna Valley Visual Environmental Education Guide

  2. Anthracite Coal

  3. Formation of Anthracite Coal grantowngrammar.highland.sch.uk

  4. coal.infomine.com

  5. The Anthracite fields are known as the Northern, Eastern-middle, Western-middle, and Southern fields Image from Ben Marsh

  6. Image from Ben Marsh The Shamokin region is the most disturbed rural landscape in Pennsylvania due to coal production

  7. Coal miners in action coalcampmemories.com knickles.com

  8. Image from Ben Marsh

  9. In 1828, the “Reading Railroad” was constructed, which served as one of the major transportation methods for coal to move across the country nationalcorridors.org

  10. Steady decline in Anthracite coal mining http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/appalachian-coal-set-for-big-decline-protests-high-profile-debates-or-not.html

  11. Orange creek from acid mine drainage Images from Ben Marsh Image from Ben Marsh

  12. Quaker Run — tributary to Shamokin Creek http://www.srbc.net/pubinfo/techdocs/Publication_279/AnthraciteSummary279a.PDF

  13. Deep mining Image from Ben Marsh

  14. Strip-mining Image from Ben Marsh

  15. Abandoned mine land near residences in the Western-Middle Coal Field. http://www.srbc.net/pubinfo/techdocs/Publication_279/AnthraciteSummary279a.PDF

  16. Nemacolin Gob Pile in Greene County, PA Energyjustice.net

  17. Coal mining in Shamokin, PA Image from Ben Marsh

  18. Culm, or waste coal, in Shamokin Image from Ben Marsh

  19. Culm in Shamokin Image from Ben Marsh

  20. Waste coal on fire in Shamokin Image from Ben Marsh

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