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Research about Pocahontas County, Webster County, West Virginia
Source-linked reports with geographic coverage including Pocahontas County, Webster County, West Virginia.
Mineral resources of the Cranberry Wilderness Study Area, Pocahontas and Webster counties, West Virginia
Cranberry Wilderness Study Area comprises 14,702 ha in the Monongahela National Forest, Pocahontas and Webster Counties, east-central West Virginia. The area is in the Yew Mountains of the Appalachian Plateaus and is at the eastern edge of the central Appalachian coal fields. Cranberry Glades, a peatland of botanical interest lies at the southern end of the study area. All surface rights in the area are held by the U. S. Forest Service; nearly 90 percent of the mineral rights are privately-owned or subordinate to the surface rights.
Analyses and description of geochemical samples, Cranberry Wilderness Study Area, Pocahontas and Webster counties, West Virginia
Semiquantitative spectrographic and other analyses on 104 stream sediment and 100 rock and mineral samples are reported here in detail. Location for all samples are in universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates. Brief descriptions of rock and mineral samples are included. Rocks analyzed include sandstone and shale; two samples of pyrite from sandstone are included. No obviously anomalous values related to mineralized rock are present in the data.