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Multiple layers of coal lie underground in ancient rocks. In some places, miners remove mountaintops to get at it.


NASA Earth Observatory image created by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Michon Scott.

Published April 10, 2011
Data acquired August 8, 2010

Source:
Landsat 5 > TM