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III.—The Coal Area of the United States of America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

N. H. Hanover
Affiliation:
U.S.A.

Extract

In compiling for the Census Bureau of the United States a small geological map, I had occasion to determine the precise areas occupied by workable beds of Carboniferous Coal. As the sum total is different from that recently stated in the GeologicalMagazine, I have thought a correction desirable; and present a few statements, based upon original authorities, the best within my reach.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1873

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References

page 99 note 1 Geol. Mag., Vol. IX., p. 236. Said to be 100,528 square miles.

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