In lithostratigraphy, coal measures are coal-bearing strata, with the term typically applied to European units of the Upper Carboniferous System. In the...
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The Coal Measures Group is a lithostratigraphical term coined to refer to the coal-bearing succession of rock strata which occur in the United Kingdom...
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Justified Measure (typography), line length in characters per line Coal measures, the coal-bearing part of the Upper Carboniferous System The Measure (SA)...
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Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely...
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The Walloon Coal Measures are a Late Jurassic geologic subgroup in Queensland, Australia. Deposited within the Surat Basin, it is considered Oxfordian...
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Newcastle Coal Measures is a major geologic formation in eastern Australia. Found in the Sydney Basin and Lachlan Orogen, this stratum is up to 1200 metres...
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Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of...
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Manchester Coalfield (category Coal mines in Lancashire)
Coalfield. The most productive of the coal measures are the lower two thirds of the Middle Coal Measures where coal is mined from seams between the Worsley...
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Bituminous coal, or black coal, is a type of coal containing a tar-like substance called bitumen or asphalt. Its coloration can be black or sometimes dark...
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coal seams worked in the South Yorkshire Coalfield lie mainly in the middle coal measures within what is now formally referred to as the Pennine Coal...
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Geology of Wales (section Coal Measures)
witness to this period. In South Wales, the Coal Measures are overlain by the thick sandstones of the Pennant Measures which often provides craggy edges to the...
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(1994). Plant Fossils of the British Coal Measures. The Palaeontological Association. ISBNÂ 0-901702-53-6. Coal forest. Department of Earth and Environmental...
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The Cattamarra Coal Measures is an Early Jurassic geological unit in Western Australia. They are part of the Perth Basin, and are a sequence of non-marine...
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The Scottish Coal Measures Group is a lithostratigraphic unit referring to the coal-bearing succession of rock strata which occur in Scotland during the...
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the 'Upper Coal Measures' (which was also referred to as the 'Pennant Measures') is no longer considered to be a part of the Coal Measures and is now...
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into the Lower Pennant Measures and the Upper Pennant Measures, differing from the underlying Middle and Lower Coal Measures in being principally of...
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Northumberland Coalfield (redirect from Northumbria Coal Measures)
locality. (Westphalian) Upper Coal Measures Killingworth West Moor Top Hebburn Fell Bottom Hebburn Fell Usworth Middle Coal Measures Burradon Rowlington Top...
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Warwickshire coalfield (category Coal mining regions in England)
coal-producer in the 21st century. The principal coal seams within the productive Lower and Middle Coal Measures include (in stratigraphic order i.e. youngest/uppermost...
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The Illawarra Coal Measures is a group of sedimentary rocks occurring in the Sydney Basin in eastern Australia. This stratum is up to 150 metres thick...
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Geology of Staffordshire (section Coal Measures)
Middle Coal Measures rocks do also extend north from it beneath Cannock forming the basis for that coalfield. A small area of Lower Coal Measures rocks...
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originating from the Carboniferous coal measures. The first trigonotarbid was described in 1837 from the coal measures of Coalbrookdale in England by the...
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The Pennine Coal Measures Group is a lithostratigraphical term referring to the coal-bearing succession of rock strata which occur in the United Kingdom...
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limestones, gritstones and coal measures reappear in the far south of Derbyshire from Ticknall (limestone) to Swadlincote (coal measures). Some areas of the...
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Coal Measures Group comprise alternating sandstones, siltstones and mudstones and the occasional coal seam, all forming a part of the Coal Measures Supergroup...
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Hett gives its name to an igneous dyke which cuts through the local Coal Measures rocks. Hett is under the constituency of City of Durham. The name Hett...
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the Coal-Measures beneath the South-Eastern part of England, in which he pointed out on well-considered theoretical grounds the likelihood of coal measures...
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Meganeura were first discovered in Late Carboniferous (Stephanian) Coal Measures of Commentry, France in 1880. In 1885, French paleontologist Charles...
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Carboniferous coal measures. This term is now used for similar quartzose sandstones found typically as seatearths in the Carboniferous coal measures of Nova...
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South Staffordshire coalfield (redirect from South Staffordshire coal-field)
as the 'Bottom'; Middle Coal Measures Brooch Thick Heathen Lower Coal Measures New Mine Bottom ?Mealy Greys In addition to coal the South Staffordshire...
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infrastructure. The Dawson coal mine lies in the Baralaba Coal Measures of the Bowen Basin. Coking, soft coking and thermal coal have all been produced at...
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