APPALACHIAN BASIN ASSESSMENT REGION

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Photographs

Upper Freeport Coal Bed.  Photograph courtesy of Ron Stanton.

              Coal miners load coal by hand onto a conveyor in 1918. In the 19th century, 

              most of the mining was done by hand. Mechanization increased rapidly 

              throughout the early 20th century and led to increased coal production.       

              (Photograph from D. Crowell, Ohio Division of Geological Survey, 1995; 

              originally from The Coal Trade Bulletin, 1918.)

 

 

               Increased demand for coal, beginning in the early 20th century, attracted 

               skilled workers to mine coal. Company towns, such as the one pictured 

               here in Hocking Valley, Ohio, sprang up throughout the Appalachian 

               coal fields. (Photograph from D. Crowell, Ohio Division of Geological 

               Survey, 1995; reprinted with permission from the Ohio Historical Society.)

 

 

                  A Geologist examining the Upper Freeport coal bed in Pennsylvania. 

                  Note the overlying sandstone. (Photograph courtesy of James Shaulis,

                  Pennsylvania Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey.)

 

 

An underground mine in the northern Appalachian Basin coal region.

       All photographs from Northern and Central Appalachian Basin Coal Regions Assessment

       Team, in press, Coal Resource Models of Top-Producing Coal Beds in the Northern and

       Central Appalachian Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1625C, CD-ROM.