Campbell.]  MEADOW    BRANCH    COAL    FIELD    OF    WEST    VIRGINIA.       331 
the  geologic  structure  and  of  the  relation  of  the  coals  to  the  other 
rocks.     Recently  interest  has  been  revived  in  this  field,  additional 
A  Red  shale 
bearing  shale 
Red  shale  and 
sandstone 
Fig.  9.— Map  of  the  Meadow  Branch  coal  field,  West  Virginia. 
prospecting  has  been  done,  and  the  field  has  been  visited  by  a  number 
of  engineers  and  geologists,  but  no  satisfactory  tests  have  been  made 
