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THE MEIGS CREEK COAL SEAM IN MORGAN, MUSKIN- 
GUM, GUERNSEY AND NOBLE COUNTIES. 
By C. Newton Brown. 
Through Morgan, Noble, south-eastern Muskingum and _ north- 
western Monroe counties, the most important coal horizon is found 
about 250 to 260 feet above the Ames or Crinoidal limestone, or about 
80 to 100 feet above the horizon of the Pittsburgh coal. The areas occu- 
pied by the seam are indicated on the map which accompanies this 
volume (Map No. 9). The seam appears to be the Sewickley coal of 
the Pennsylvania series. In former reports this coal is known as the 
Upper Bellaire, Upper Barnesville or Cumberland coal. The term © 
Cumberland is already occupied as the name of a famous Maryland 
coal, and it will therefore be dropped, as a confusing synonym, and the 
coal will here be designated the Meigs Creek enal from the name of the 
stream in Morgan county which drains a central portion of the field. 
For convenience of description this coal field will be divided into three 
districts. 
The first includes western Morgan, and eastern and Central 
Athens, and Meigs counties. Here the Meigs Creek coal is thin and 
unsteady, and of little economic value. 
The second includes eastern Morgan, Noble, south-eastern Mus- 
- kingum and southern Guernsey counties. Here the Meigs Creek coal 
is the only coal that can be worked ina large way. 
The third includes Belmont, north-western Monroe, eastern Harri- 
_ gon and southern Jefferson counties. Here the Meigs Creek coal is in 
good force, but it has to give way to the Pittsburgh seam, which is the 
thicker and much purer. 
The character of the coal and its roof are surprisingly steady over 
the entire field. 
The average of many analyses shows the following composition 
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