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Pennsylvania is also home to the famous Drake Oil Well in Titusville which helped give rise to the modern oil industry and two brand name motor oils, Quaker State (now owned by Royal Dutch Shell) and Pennzoil. Pennsylvania also has reserves of natural gas from both deeply buried source rocks and coal-bed areas.
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The following is a list of the mapped bedrock units in Pennsylvania. The rocks are listed in stratigraphic order. ... Formation name Member name Map symbol [2 ...
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
The Pennsylvania Dutch region in south-central Pennsylvania is a favorite for sightseers. The Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, and at least 15 other sects are common in the rural areas around the cities of Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg with smaller populations extending northeast to the Lehigh Valley and up to the Susquehanna Valley.
Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state in the United States, with over 13 million residents as of the 2020 United States census, its highest decennial census count ever. [3] The state is the 33rd-largest by area and has the ninth-highest population density among all states.
The Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, western Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, and Alabama.It is a major ridge-former in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians of the eastern United States. [3]
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