Part of illustrative matter folded in pocket. As of 03/04/2016, GPO could not validate the distribution status of this title for the FDLP. Map in pocket, Plate 1: Geologic map and section of the Ransom quadrangle, Lackawanna, Luzerne, and Wyoming Counties, Pennsylvania, 1966. Chart in pocket, Plate 2: Stratigraphic section and radiometric logs of the Richards 1 Well, Ransom quadrangle, Pennsylvania, [1966]. Chart in pocket, Plate 3: Composite stratigraphic section of the exposed Devonian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian strata in the Ransom quadrangle, Pennsylvania, [1966]. "United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey." Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-81).

Abstract -- Introduction -- Location and extent of area -- Purpose and scope of report -- Fieldwork and examination of well cuttings -- Acknowledgments -- Previous work -- Topography and drainage -- Stratigraphy -- Devonian System -- Lower Devonian Series -- Helderberg Group -- Kalkberg Limestone -- New Scotland Limestone equivalent -- Becraft Limestone -- Port Ewen Limestone equivalent -- Oriskany Group -- Shriver Chert -- Esopus Shale -- Middle Devonian Series -- Onondaga Limestone -- Hamilton Group -- Marcellus Shale -- Mahantango Formation -- Upper Devonian Series -- Susquehanna Group -- Trimmers Rock Formation -- Catskill Formation -- Mississippian System -- Pocono Formation -- Pennsylvanian System -- Pottsville System -- Post-Pottsville rocks -- Quaternary System -- Pleistocene and Recent Series -- Glacial terrace deposits -- Alluvium -- Structure -- Rockfall at Bald Mountain -- Geologic history -- Economic geology -- Coal -- Gas -- Sand and gravel -- Stratigraphic sections -- Powerline A -- Powerline B -- Powerline C -- Buttermilk Creek -- Ransom A -- Ransom B -- Falls -- Log of Richards 1 well. Description of the outcropping and subsurface strata of Devonian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian age and of the unconsolidated sediments of Quaternary age.