Conrail Railroad cut, Minerva, Stark County, Ohio, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Conrail Railroad cut | - not defined - |
| Minerva | - not defined - |
| Stark County | County |
| Ohio | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
40° 45' 8'' North , 81° 6' 21'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Minerva | 3,678 (2017) | 2.5km |
| East Rochester | 231 (2017) | 6.0km |
| Robertsville | 331 (2017) | 7.1km |
| Malvern | 1,155 (2017) | 9.3km |
| Homeworth | 481 (2017) | 9.8km |
Other/historical names associated with this locality:
Penn Central Railroad cut; Pennsylvania Railroad cut
An abandoned Conrail Railroad cut located in the NW ¼ of Section 25, Minerva, Paris Township, Stark County, Ohio. The locality exposes the Lower Freeport Coal Formation, Allegheny Group. The Lower Freeport is known locally to coal miners as the No. 6a coal vein.
Ernest Carlson (1991, p. 114, 2015, p. 202) observed efflorescence of halotrichite-pickeringite at the locality.
This rail cut was along the former Canton-Bayard Branch Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The branch line split from the main line at Rochester, Pennsylvania, then went points west to Canton, Ohio where it rejoined the mainline at Fairhope, Ohio. The “Bayard Cutoff” from Fairhope to Bayard was used by iron ore and coal trains until the late 1970s, when the Pennsylvania Railroad merged with the New York Central to form the ill-fated Penn Central Railroad (Lynch, 2004, p. 70).
After the Penn Central Railroad when bankrupt and the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was established in 1976, Conrail decided to abandon the Bayard Branch from Fairhope to Bayard in 1983 as part of their effort to reduce duplicate lines or unnecessary lines (Sanders, 2009, p. 45).
Today the locality is on private property and heavily overgrown.
NOTE: Not to be confused with https://www.mindat.org/loc-54956.html
Select Mineral List Type
Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Pickeringite Formula: MgAl2(SO4)4 · 22H2O |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Pickeringite | 7.CB.85 | MgAl2(SO4)4 · 22H2O |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| H | Hydrogen | |
|---|---|---|
| H | ⓘ Pickeringite | MgAl2(SO4)4 · 22H2O |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Pickeringite | MgAl2(SO4)4 · 22H2O |
| Mg | Magnesium | |
| Mg | ⓘ Pickeringite | MgAl2(SO4)4 · 22H2O |
| Al | Aluminium | |
| Al | ⓘ Pickeringite | MgAl2(SO4)4 · 22H2O |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Pickeringite | MgAl2(SO4)4 · 22H2O |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
North AmericaContinent
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Appalachian BasinBasin
- Granite-Rhyolite ProvinceMagmatic Province
- Shawnee DomainDomain
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