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Robert M. Kosanke

Publications and source records attributed to Robert M. Kosanke.

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Palynological investigations in the Pennsylvanian of Kentucky - VII

This is the seventh open-file report concerned primarily with palynological analyses of Pennsylvanian coals, shales, and underclays. It is part of the cooperative mapping project between Kentucky and the U. S. Geological Survey. This report contains palynological analyses of samples from Wise, Norton, Appalachia, and Keokee quadrangles in Virginia as well as from Roxana, Benham, Pennington Gap, Louellen, Williamsburg, and Saxton quadrangles of eastern Kentucky. Two sets of samples were examined from localities in the Jellico West quadrangle of Tennessee, and four sets-of samples were examined from South Hill and Cromwell quadrangles of western Kentucky. A total of 138 samples have been run and more than 13,250 specimens identified and counted. All analyses completed since the release of Open-file Report VI are included in this report. Other reports will be placed in open-file when they are completed and released for general use.

Open-File Report

Introduction

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Special Papers of the Geological Society of Americ

Plant microfossils of the Hazard No. 7 coal, Perry County, Kentucky

The cooperative mapping program between the Kentucky Geological Survey and the U. S. Geological Survey has yielded a number of interesting and valuable by-products. As a part of the stratigraphic studies involving Carboniferous coal fields, R. M. Kosanke has been involved in a detailed analysis of spore floras from various coal horizons. This study is aimed toward a correlation within the eastern coal field and, eventually, toward more accurate correlations with the western Kentucky coal fields.

Kentucky