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

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Hobet Mine, West Virginia.

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