The Atlantic Coast Triassic Coal Field (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Atlantic Coast Triassic Coal FieldThese southern coal areas lie in the Piedmont district, midway between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. This is a region of little relief, easily traversed in any direction by roads and railways, and having on its caste1n border 1eady access to tide water by means of the James and ('ape Fear rivers.The productive tracts occur in two well-marked belts in Virginia and North Carolina, with an intermediate tract in Virginia. These belts extend for about 250 miles in a southwesterly direction, over an area nearly 100 miles wide.The eastern belt includes the Taylorsville and Richmond areas in Virginia, and the Deep Riv er area in North Carolina. The western belt includes the Dan River area. Between them lies the Farmville area in Virginia. The areas in Virginia will first be described, then those in North Carolina.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.