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Radioactive Coal and Shale of Pennsylvanian and Permian Age in Northern West Virginia

Description: Report discussing radioactive coal in northern West Virginia. From Abstract: "The commercially important coal beds in the Monongahela series of Pennsylvanian age and coal and shale of the Dunkard series of Permian age were examined and sampled in eight counties in northern West Virginia."
Date: December 1954
Creator: Patterson, E. D.
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Radioactivity of Coal and Associated Rock in the Coal Fields of Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia

Description: The following report covers a reconnaissance study that was made of radioactivity of coal and associated rock in the coal fields of eastern Kentucky and Logan Mingo counties, W. Va. Samples of coal, carbonaceous shale, marine shale, flint clay, and dike rock were discovered and radioactivity within these samples were measured.
Date: June 1953
Creator: Welch, Stewart W.
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