Kittanning coal refers to

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dea ...

seams in the Kittanning

cyclothem In geology, cyclothems are alternating stratigraphy, stratigraphic sequences of Marine (ocean), marine and non-marine sediments, sometimes interbedded with coal seams. Historically, the term was defined by the European coal geologists who worked ...

of the Pennsylvanian Epoch, located in southeastern

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. In the coal industry, the Lower Kittanning is Coal number 5, and the Middle Kittanning is Coal number 6.

History

These were and are economically important coal seams in the

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region of Ohio. The Middle Kittanning is at about surface level in the valleys of

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and

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in southeastern

, but become much deeper going east. Many towns and villages in southeast Ohio grew up around the mining of the Middle Kittanning coal vein. Many of these are known as the " Little Cities of Black Diamonds."

References

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