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James Hall, 1839. The Marcellus Formation or the Marcellus Shale is a Middle Devonian age unit of sedimentary rock found in eastern North America. Named for a distinctive outcrop near the village of Marcellus, New York, in the United States, [3] it extends throughout much of the Appalachian Basin. [4] [5] [6]
The Marcellus natural gas trend is a large geographic area of prolific shale gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale or Marcellus Formation, of Devonian age, in the eastern United States. [2] The shale play encompasses 104,000 square miles and stretches across Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and into eastern Ohio and western New York. [3]
December 25, 2016 – A fire broke out at a gas compressor station, in Armstrong County. [140] January 1, 2017 – Fire erupts at Marcellus Shale pad in Somerset Township, Washington County. [141] March 9, 2017 – A fire at a Susquehanna County gas compressor station. [142] November 30, 2017 - A gas well pad fire in Somerset County. [143]
Map showing the counties of New York considered part of the "Burned-over District" [1] [2] The term "burned-over district" refers to the western and parts of the central regions of New York State in the early 19th century, where religious revivals and the formation of new religious movements of the Second Great Awakening took place, to such a great extent that spiritual fervor seemed to set ...
On February 10, 1973, a gas explosion occurred inside a Texas Eastern Transmission Pipeline tank storing liquefied natural gas in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City, while 42 workers were cleaning the tank. The tank had supposedly been completely drained ten months earlier, but ignition occurred, causing a plume of ...
Great Fire of New York. Coordinates: 40.707°N 74.010°W. April 1836 lithograph of the destruction of the Merchant's Exchange Building on Wall Street, during the Great Fire. The 1835 Great Fire of New York was one of three fires that rendered extensive damage to New York City in the 18th and 19th centuries. The fire occurred in the middle of an ...
Shale Creek, tributary to Eighteen Mile Creek. The Eternal Flame Falls is a small waterfall located in the Shale Creek Preserve, a section of Chestnut Ridge Park in Western New York. A small grotto at the waterfall's base emits natural gas, which can be lit to produce a small flame. This flame is visible nearly year round, although it can be ...
The Great Fire of New York was a devastating fire that burned through the night of September 20, 1776, and into the morning of September 21, on the West Side of what then constituted New York City at the southern end of the island of Manhattan. [3] It broke out in the early days of the military occupation of the city by British forces during ...