Transactions . ^ to believe that when the coal is heated the organic sulfur willresist reduction. Rather, I surmise that it is first to be driven off andthat the pyritic sulfur is driven off later. I cannot feel that my state-ment is made less strong by anything that is brought up about weather-ing, which is an altogether different operation. 932 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF SULFUR IN WEST VIRGINIA COAL Geographic Distribution of Sulfur in West Virginia Coal Beds BY I. C. WHITE,* PH. D., LL. D., MORGANTOWN, W. VA. (Chicago Meeting, September, 1919) Only two factors appear to be directly responsi
Transactions . ^ to believe that when the coal is heated the organic sulfur willresist reduction. Rather, I surmise that it is first to be driven off andthat the pyritic sulfur is driven off later. I cannot feel that my state-ment is made less strong by anything that is brought up about weather-ing, which is an altogether different operation. 932 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF SULFUR IN WEST VIRGINIA COAL Geographic Distribution of Sulfur in West Virginia Coal Beds BY I. C. WHITE,* PH. D., LL. D., MORGANTOWN, W. VA. (Chicago Meeting, September, 1919) Only two factors appear to be directly responsible for the geographicdistribution of sulfur in the coal fields of West Virginia: these are the. A^ V/EST VIRGINIA V SHOWING Average Sulfur Content of AllWest Virginia Coals [ jUnder | | to -[^ to ^^ to [ to -[~ tp I -j^.OO to ^gAoove 5 00 _J ! I U Fig. 1. stratigraphic position of the coals in question, and the eastward orwestward location of the deposits. There appears to be a progressiveincrease in the sulfur content of West Virginia coals from the oldestPennsylvanian deposits in the Pocahontas, New River, and KanawhaGroups of the Pottsville Series up through the Allegheny, Conemaugh, and * State Geologist. I. C. WHITE 933 Monongahela, culminating in the thin coals of the Dunkard Series of theAitinsk or Permo-Carboniferous. In these newest coals, a maximumsulfur 3ield of and per cent, has been found in the Dunkard Seriescoal beds of Wood and Ohio Counties along the extreme western boundaryof the state. Then, since the lowest and oldest of the Pennsylvanianbeds crop out farthest to the east a
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