This article is about the region of Kentucky. For the Indian company, see Western Coalfields.
The West Kentucky Coal Field comprises an area in the west-central and northwestern part of the state, bounded by the Dripping Springs Escarpment and the Pennyroyal Plateau and the Ohio River, but is part of the Illinois Basin that extends into Indiana and Illinois.[1] It is characterized by Pennsylvanian age sandstones, shales and coal. Nearly all of the counties in the area are part of the television market known as the Kentucky–Illinois–Indiana tri-state area.
Physical regions of Kentucky; not all defined as Western Coal Field contains coal
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road, that traverses parts of the plateau and the state's adjacent WesternCoalFields. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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purpose. However, the lack of heavy industry in Western Canada means that only a limited amount of this coal is consumed in Canada, and most is exported to...
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