The Coal-fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure, and ResourcesStanford, 1861 - 194 Seiten |
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Anthracosia Arley Aviculo-pecten bands basalt basin beds of coal bituminous Black Shale Britain calcareous Cannel Carboniferous Limestone Carboniferous rocks centre Coal Strata coal-basin coal-beds coal-field Coal-formation Coal-measures coal-seams Coal-series coast collieries conglomerate containing Delf Denbighshire denudation depth district ditto east England extends fault feet in thickness Flintshire formation fossils Four-feet Gannister genus Geol Geological Survey Goniatites Hills inches increase ironstone Island Lancashire Lepidodendron lignite Lower Carboniferous Lower Coal-measures Main Coal Manchester millions of tons Millstone Grit mineral mining northern Old Red Sandstone Oolite outcrop Permian Permian rocks Permian strata plants Price probably produce quantity of coal R. I. Murchison sandstones and shales Scotland seams sheet shells shire Shireoak Sigillaria Silurian South Staffordshire South Wales species Spirorbis square miles stone temperature thin coals tion tract Trias trough Upper Coal-measures valley vertical Wigan workable coal yards Yorkshire
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Seite 58 - ... a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Seite 59 - He putteth forth his hand upon the rock ; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks ; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
Seite 152 - The former is undoubtedly identical with the " Arley mine " of Lancashire ; and thus this fine bed of coal, which seldom exceeds...