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Book The Mines and Minerals of Chester County  Pennsylvania

Download or read book The Mines and Minerals of Chester County Pennsylvania written by Ronald A. Sloto and published by . This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chester County is the home of many famous and world-class mineral localities -- the Wheatley Mine, French Creek Mine, Brinton's Quarry, Poorhouse Quarry, Unionville corundum mines, Cornog Quarry, Beryl Hill, and the Parksburg rutile area -- to name just a few. This new book pulls together over 200 years of mining and mineral history under one cover. It is richly illustrated with 574 figures -- old and new photographs, old maps, mine cross sections, crystal drawings, and mineral photographs. Many of the old photographs have never been published before. The Mines and Minerals of Chester County, Pennsylvania describes over 400 mines and mineral localities. It includes the known history of each mine and locality and a list of reported minerals. The locations are shown on a set of USGS topographic maps. Because many of the mines had several names over the course of their history, a comprehensive cross-index is provided. Also included is an index of all minerals reported from Chester County with their localites.

Book Rockhounding Pennsylvania and New Jersey

Download or read book Rockhounding Pennsylvania and New Jersey written by Robert Beard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this informative guide, you can explore the mineral-rich regions of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, from the beaches to the mountains. It describes the states' best rockhounding sites and covers popular and commercial sites as well as numerous little-known areas. This handy guide also describes how to collect specimens, includes maps and directions to each site, and lists rockhound clubs in each state. Rockhounding Pennsylvania and New Jersey offers a complete introduction to this many-faceted hobby and is an invaluable sourcebook.

Book Mineralogy of Pennsylvania 1922 1965

Download or read book Mineralogy of Pennsylvania 1922 1965 written by Arthur Montgomery and published by Academy of Natural Sciences. This book was released on 2008 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1922 Samuel Gordon¿s ¿The Mineralogy of PA¿ was pub. by the Acad. of Natural Sci. of Phila., & was later reprinted twice. The editing of the material incorp. in this updated vol. utilizes & brings up-to-date the more significant data bearing on mineral discoveries, occurrences & origin, & covers the period of pub. of a one-page column, ¿PA Minerals,¿ in the Keystone Newsletter, monthly journal of the Mineralogical Soc. of PA from 1962-1965. Contents: (1) Aims, & Contents; (2) Revised List of PA Minerals; (3) Descriptive Mineralogy of Newly Recorded Species; (4) New Data on Earlier Recorded Minerals: Minerals of Historical Interest; Minerals of Geochem. Interest; & Zeolites & Related Secondary Minerals; & (5) Index of PA Minerals & Mineral Localities. Illus.

Book Gem Trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey

Download or read book Gem Trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey written by Scott Stepanski and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Natural Pennsylvania

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  • Author : Charles Fergus
  • Publisher : Stackpole Books
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780811720380
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Natural Pennsylvania written by Charles Fergus and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Pennsylvania, within the state forest system, are 61 officially designated Natural Areas, each offering a bit of wildness deemed worthy of protection: rare-bird breeding sites, stands of old-growth trees, fragile wetlands, ice age remnants, mineral-rich mountainsides. To experience first-hand the unique features of each natural area, nature writer Charles Fergus spent a year visiting all 61. In this information-filled book, he reports on what he found, offering readers a guided tour of some of natural Pennsylvania's most distinctive places. He also provides information on how to visit the areas, each of which is open to the public.

Book The Pennsylvania Railroad  Volume 1

Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 1 written by Albert J. Churella and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.

Book Bulletin

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1178 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania

Download or read book The Mineralogy of Pennsylvania written by Samuel George Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences  Vol  121  1969

Download or read book Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences Vol 121 1969 written by and published by Academy of Natural Sciences. This book was released on with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Minerals Yearbook

Download or read book Minerals Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of Mining  Mineral  and Related Terms

Download or read book A Dictionary of Mining Mineral and Related Terms written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes about 55,000 individual mining and mineral industry term entries with about 150,000 definitions under these terms.

Book Catalogue and Index of Contributions to North American Geology  1732 1891

Download or read book Catalogue and Index of Contributions to North American Geology 1732 1891 written by Nelson Horatio Darton and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geologic Literature on North America  1785 1918

Download or read book Geologic Literature on North America 1785 1918 written by John Milton Nickles (paléontologue).) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: