The smallcoalfield of Karharbari with an area of only 11 sq.
A chord line passes by the coalfield of Raniganj, which enables this great railway to be worked more economically than any other in India.
South Wales coalfieldunder the sea in St Bride's Bay and part of Carmarthen Bay.
The districts where it is most worked at present lie within the coalfield of Shan-si, viz.
This is probably the most extensivecoalfield in the world.
The coalfield is divided into two by a mountain range of ancient granitic formation running north-east and south-west, termed the Ho-shan.
The largest coalfield in China lies in the province of Shan-si.
The outcrop of this formation broadens eastward until it is covered by the Durham coalfield which occupies the centre of the county from Newcastle and South Shields to Barnard Castle.
Sanquhar Coalfield there are patches of the Carboniferous Limestone series, but towards the N.
In the detached portion of the county between Kirkintilloch and Cumbernauld there is an important coalfield embracing the seams in the middle or coal-bearing group of the Carboniferous Limestone series.
An entirely new coalfield has been developed in this manner in the district of Cannock Chase; and two most remarkable collieries, those of Sandwell Park, and Hamstead, have been opened in the neighbourhood of Birmingham itself.
Round the South Staffordshire Coalfield the Breccia is the highest division exposed, and this only occurs in force to the south of the coalfield.
The strata of the South Staffordshire Coalfield afford the usual fossils of the British Coal Measures.
Of late years the Triassic rocks which surround the coalfieldhave been pierced in order to reach the Coal measures beneath.
The rocks of this coalfieldform a narrow strip about 15 miles in length, ranging from Tamworth on the north to Bedworth on the South.
For its size the South Staffordshire coalfield has proved itself the richest mineral area in Britain.
The total thickness of the Carboniferous beds is about 1,300 feet, and the normal succession in the central and highest part of the coalfield is as follows:-- Upper Coal Measures.
The strata exposed on the last three of these coalfields are those of the upper Carboniferous or Coal measures; neither the Carboniferous limestone nor the Millstone grit being met with outside the limits of the coalfield of Coalbrookdale.
The most remarkable seam of the South Staffordshire coalfield is that known as the Ten yard or Thick coal, a continuous bed of workable coal from 25 to 30 feet in thickness.
The principal minerals worked within the limits of the South Staffordshire Coalfield are coal, ironstone, and fireclay from the Carboniferous formations, and limestone from the underlying Silurian rocks.
Unlike the strata of the other coalfields, the Carboniferous rocks of the coalfield of the Forest of Wyre are comparatively barren of good coal seams.
A very complete specimen, with the stipe, was collected in the coalfield near Edinburgh by Hugh Miller, who has described it as above.
At Hanwood we traverse a small local Black Country, where an outlier of the Shropshire coalfield lies under foot, and where stumpy colliery chimneys and whimsey-wheels deface the nearer landscape.
A small tract, part of the Leicestershire coalfield, lies in the south-east corner, and in the north-west corner a portion of the Lancashire coalfield appears about New Mills and Whaley Bridge.
Why do Balkan and other border States fight fiercely over this coalfield or that harbour?
The next year, 1871, saw the finishing up of the coalfield work, and simultaneously the beginnings of a gathering together of the accumulated mass of glacial material which was a year or two later to take shape in The Great Ice Age.
The following spring saw him in more congenial surroundings in the Border counties, and this chapter may fitly end with the completion of his coalfield work.
The coalfield north-west of the former city was not neglected, the great breccia beds of the Rothliegende were again examined, and account was taken of Ramsay's opinion that certain British Permian breccias were glacial in origin.
Logan had recently obtained in the South Wales coalfield of Britain.
They journeyed by Newhaven, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington to Richmond, where a halt was made to examine the coalfield some sixteen miles to the south-west of the city.
By this journey another section was, in fact, run across the great coalfield of the Eastern States, but considerably to the south of that which had been examined in the autumn of the preceding year.
But a piece of work in Virginia had been left unfinished on the last occasion--the examination of the Jurassic coalfield near Richmond.
From Mobile also a long river journey was undertaken to Tuscaloosa, to visit a coalfield which supplied the town with fuel and the materials for gas.
From New Orleans Lyell went by steamer to Natchez, halting on the way to examine more closely certain localities of interest and to obtain illustrations of how a coalfield might be formed.
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