Bear Valley Strip Mine

The Bear Valley Strip Mine is an abandoned coal strip mine located in Coal Township, Northumberland County, to the southwest of the town of Shamokin, Pennsylvania. It lies in the Western Middle Field of the Anthracite belt in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, where the Pennsylvanian Llewellyn Formation is exposed. The property is owned by the Reading Anthracite Company.

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Frameless

Stigmaria Bear Valley upright

Bear Valley Strip Mine 1

Stigmaria Bear Valley Strip Mine

Concretions Bear Valley

Bear Valley Whaleback DCP 0776

Sigillaria root

Bear Valley east wall

Bear Valley Slickensides

Fossil branches (Llewellyn Formation, Middle Pennsylavnian; Bear Valley Strip Mine, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA) 1

Neuropteris sp. (fossil seed fern) (Llewellyn Formation, MIddle Pennsylavnian; Bear Valley Strip Mine, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA) 2

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Stigmaria Bear Valley upright		Commons
commons	image		Bear Valley Strip Mine 1		Commons
commons	image		Stigmaria Bear Valley Strip Mine		Commons
commons	image		Concretions Bear Valley		Commons
commons	image		Bear Valley Whaleback DCP 0776		Commons
commons	image		Sigillaria root		Commons
commons	image		Bear Valley east wall		Commons
commons	image		Bear Valley Slickensides		Commons
commons	image		Fossil branches (Llewellyn Formation, Middle Pennsylavnian; Bear Valley Strip Mine, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA) 1		Commons
commons	image		Neuropteris sp. (fossil seed fern) (Llewellyn Formation, MIddle Pennsylavnian; Bear Valley Strip Mine, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA) 2		Commons