On the other hand, the decision to give the coalfields at Dundee the protection contemplated by Sir W.
In this band lie the coalfields of Liege, and of Mons and Charleroi.
Besides these four coalfieldsthere are twenty-five others of various sizes, which are only in the initial stages of development.
Subsequent to this ice age the Indian coalfields of the Gondwana were laid down, with beds rich in the Glossopteris and Gangamopteris flora.
Thus, so long as there is free oxygen in the universe, our coalfields might, at any time in the remote future, generate light and heat in the universal grave.
In spite of the great bulk of the country's coalfields lying east of the Grass and the vast quantities of oil and natural gas from Texas, there was a fuel famine, due largely to the breakdown of the transportation system.
Truly a great achievement, and important as great, for the Vimy Ridge covered the city of Arras and the coalfields of Béthune.
And all this when she has lost the Saar coalfields and is faced with the threatening situation in Upper Silesia.
In the southerncoalfields it is usually known by the miners' name of "Farewell rock," from its marking the lower limit of possible coal working.
In Asia the Chinese coalfields are of peculiar interest.
A more cogent reason, however, is to be found in the fact that the principalcoalfields are in flat countries, where the coal can only be reached by vertical sinking.
An independent work on the coal resources of Scotland under the title of the Coalfields of Scotland, by R.
In addition it was estimated that in the proved coalfields at depths greater than 4000 ft.
There is also a group of coalfields on the Atlantic seaboard of the Dominion, principally in Nova Scotia.
The coalfields of the Austrian dominions (exclusive of Hungary) are described in Die Mineralkohlen Osterreichs, published at Vienna by the Central Union of Austrian mineowners.
Systematic detailed descriptions of the French coalfields appear from time to time under the title of Etudes sur les gites mineraux de la France from the ministry of public works in Paris.
Where there is plenty of coal double the number of people can exist; the enormous population of Lancashire south of the Ribble has unquestionably come as much of its coalfields as of the invention of the spinning-jenny.
Coalfields lying below the surface leave the soil above them free for the purposes of the farmer and the builder; in other words, for the raising of human food and the development of useful constructive arts.
Coal in this neighbourhood began to be worked after the opening of a branch of the Bengal-Nagpur railway to Chhindwara and the coalfields to the north in 1905.
Inasmuch as nearly all the coalfields of the former Empire lie outside what is now German-Austria, the industrial ruin of this latter state, if she cannot obtain coal from Germany, will be complete.
Out of the coal that remains to her, Germany is obliged to make good year by year the estimated loss which France has incurred by the destruction and damage of war in the coalfields of her northern Provinces.
These mines extend under the waves like the coalfields at Newcastle.
Certain British coalfields have yielded good specimens: Archaeoptilus, from the Derbyshire coalfield, had a spread of wing extending to more than 14 in.
For instance, although the South Wales Coalfields extend over a very large area, a rate of 7s.
That in all the coalfields accidents of a fearful nature are extremely frequent, and of the work-people who perish by such accidents, the proportion of children and young persons sometimes equals, and rarely falls much below that of adults.
Truck-masters were prosecuted and truck was steadily dislodged from the coalfields and adjacent ironworks.
Up and down the Durham coalfields tramped a misguided agitator (in after life the veteran servant of the Durham Miners' Association), by name Tommy Ramsey.
The coalfields round the Grey River are enormous, and have no doubt a great future; and this useful mineral is also found in the Bay of Islands, and other places in the North Island.
The recent working of important coalfields near Durban has increased its value as a port and coaling station.
Another line is being constructed through the Wankie coalfields which will cross the Zambesi near the Victoria Falls.
The place was named Coalcliff, and this was the first discovery of the great southern coalfields of New South Wales.
It is along this northern margin, where the folded beds have been thrust over the rocks which lay to the north, that the coalfields of Dover and of Belgium occur.
In these three coalfields a two-fold division of the Carboniferous is recognisable:-- (a.
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.
In this sub-district the Warwickshire coalfields occur, and it is possibly due to the great prevalence of smoke that its flora is meagre and the plants often depauperated.
Their engineers were at work already on the plans to be put into almost immediate operation for the construction of a private track to link up the coalfields with Snake's Fall.
It was assumed in all the "expert" military writing of that date that the possession by the Allies of these two hills would force the evacuation of the Lens coalfields by the Germans.
The Germans proudly boasted the impregnability of a position which protected their strangle-hold upon the coalfields of Lens and gave them a jumping-off place for a further adventure westward to the Channel ports.
So much do our coalfields differ in geological formation, in tradition, in the subdivision and classification of labour, in outlet for trade, that it is unlikely that any single unit or organisation will be the ideal one for every coalfield.
The geological and other conditions in the different coalfields vary enormously, and these form a very relevant factor in deciding upon the ideal unit of size.
I do not propose to chop up the coalfields into mathematical sections and compulsorily unify the collieries in those sections.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coalfields" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
