Mineral resources of the Cranberry Wilderness study area, Webster and Pocahontas counties, West Virginia, with sections on peat resources, oil and gas potential, and geochemical survey

Abstract

No. 3(?) coal bed __________________ 18 Pocahontas No. 3(?) rider coal bed _______________-Little Fire Creek(?) coal bed __________________-Fire Creek(?) coal bed _______________________ 32 Beckiey(?) coal bed ________________________.. Little Raleigh(?) coal bed _____________________ Little Raleigh(?) rider coal bed _________________ 37 Sewell coal bed ____________________________ Hughes Ferry(?) coal bed ___________________._ Peat resources, by C. C. Cameron and A. E. Grosz _________ 40 Shale and clay ____________________________ 44 High-silica sandstone _______________________ Stone __________.,________ _____________ Oil and gas potential, by W. J. Perry, Jr. ______________ 54 Geochemical survey, by F. G. Lesure ______________ References cited ________________________________ 60

Beaver-Driven Peatland Ecotone Dynamics: Impoundment Detection Using Lidar and Geomorphon Analysis

“…The open peatlands of CGBA (Figure 1d) have been shrinking for at least a century due to woody encroachment associated with water table drop [19,41,47]. Stine et al (2011) suggested that beavers have been integral to the formation and maintenance of Sphagnumdominated peatland conditions at Cranberry Glades [38].…”