The strata which I examined consisted of fine-grained muddy sandstones, with fragments of lignite and concretions of calcareous sandstone.
Lignite is a fossil wood carbonized to a certain degree, but retaining distinctly its woody texture.
Different varieties of lignite (fossilized wood) or even pit coal, when well carbonized in close vessels, afford a decolouring charcoal of considerable value.
They conclude that a great deal of amber has been detached from the cliffs by the sea, when many pieces of lignite (wood coal) are seen afloat.
But they have not been very highly esteemed, the coals being lignite of not the best quality.
It contains all, or nearly all, the grades of coal fromlignite to bituminous; the variety of coal depending upon the degree of local disturbance.
Unfortunately, we have no settled nomenclature for the varieties of coal, excepting the broad names lignite or brown coal, bituminous coal, and anthracite.
Sidenote: Lignite an unsuitable name for the coals of Washington Territory.
Washington Mines, on one of the upper branches of Squak Creek, show the outcroppings of three seams of lignite coal, dipping S.
When newly mined, lignite contains a large percentage of water, sometimes as high as 50 per cent.
Lignite occurs in immense deposits throughout the middle portion of the western half of the United States, where beds 20 feet in depth are not uncommon.
Or we might incorporate him into that burnin' lignite bed over in the butte.
Wood fuel is scarce, the present supply being from the Tortum district, whence surface coal and lignite are also brought; but the usual fuel is tezek or dried cow-dung.
Some of the coal and lignite mines in Tortum have been recently worked to supply fuel for Erzerum.
DJ] The writer has shown that much of the material of the great lignite beds of the Canadian Northwest consists of wood of Sequoia of both the modern types.
This was formerly known as the lignitic or lignite Tertiary, but more recently as the Laramie series.
This was first discovered in the lignite of Wetterau, and was described as Taxites langsdorfii.
Lithologically, the series consists principally of sands and clays, with beds of lignite and coal, and its organic remains show that it is principally of fresh-water origin with a partial intermixture of marine beds.
In Britain, the Miocene rocks are very poorly developed, one of their leading developments being at Bovey Tracy in Devonshire, where there occur sands, clays, and beds of lignite or imperfect coal.
To the plant remains and Lignite there is little that can be done beyond trimming them to suit the trays.
Below this lignite band we find our leaf-bed getting sandier and sandier, and losing all trace of the plants by degrees till it becomes almost pure sand.
Lignite also exists in North Park and at various points on the divide between North and Middle parks.
The production of rough lignite (I will not risk controversy by attempting to convert this into its pit–coal equivalent) rose from 87.
But lignite briquette is a substitute for coal for certain purposes only, and the evidence is conflicting as to whether any further material expansion is economically practicable.
The process of briquetting the rough lignite is probably a wasteful one, and it is doubtful whether it would be worth while to set up new plant with a view to production on a larger scale.
It is certainly the case that the future possibilities of lignite should not be overlooked.
As a result, the cost of production of lignite rose much faster than that of coal.
That of lignite is added, the provinces of Saxony and Brandenburg being rich in this product:-- Production of Coal and Lignite.
One of the important outcomes of this situation has been the recent rapid development of German lignite production, based on newly worked-out methods of treatment and utilization.
However, there is complete gradation in coal materials from peat through lignite to bituminous and anthracite coals; many varieties fall near the border lines of the main groups, and their specific naming then becomes difficult.
The existence of large fields of lignite in the Gulf Coast region, and in the Northern Plains region, which have not been mined.
Great quantities oflignite are known to exist, and in quality the coal ranges in character from lignite to anthracite.
Lignites--As the content of volatile matter and moisture in lignite is higher than in bituminous coal, the difficulties encountered in burning them are greater.
Lignite is also found in the eastern part of Texas and in Oklahoma.
Lignite is organic matter in the earlier stages of its conversion into coal, and includes all varieties which are intermediate between peat and coal of the older formation.
North of Bismarck are extensive lignite coal deposits, with one of the largest strip mines in the State in north Burleigh County, near Wilton.
These people come from Galicia, a province of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, and found work in the lignite mines which at that time were just opening here.
The interest of the university school of mines in lignite experimentation did not end with the perfecting of the briquet process.
The development of North Dakota lignite mines, beginning in the 1880's, removed an important handicap to mill operation, however, and later the lowering of freight rates allowed importation of other fuel.
From the eastern rim of the butte on a clear day is a panorama of the Badlands, with Flat Top Butte in the foreground, and the diggings of several private lignite coal mines visible in the slopes of the neighboring hills.
How long the lignitebed has been burning underground is not known.
Western North Dakota has, in addition to its lignite beds, large deposits of clay.
R), an underground lignite mine once owned and used for experimental purposes by the South Dakota School of Mines.
The lignite veins in the formation indicate that the sea covered this area at least eleven times during the period when the formation was being deposited.
Lignite has a conspicuously woody appearance, often showing clearly the grain of the wood or the shape of the trunks and branches from which it was formed.
I had already found on the shore opposite at high tide, large pieces of lignite coal and petrified wood.
I see from your sketch that basalts of great thickness, and in some views beautifully columnar, do underlie the lignite bed; but I am not quite sure that these columnar basalts are those precisely which are called the Causeway.
Large areas of lignite and soft coal have been discovered along the shores of Arctic sea between the Mackenzie and the Coppermine and in the islands off the coast.
Among the uses to which it is adapted, may be mentioned roofing, paving, insulating electric wires, and it might also be mixed with the lignite which occurs in the neighbourhood, and pressed into briquettes for fuel.
Doctor Bell, before the Senate committee of 1887, referring to his first voyage to Hudson bay, explained that lignite had been found inland in the country south and west of James bay.
If this is true, it indicates that this coal is older than the lignite coal of the country, and probably much harder and better.
It belongs to a more recent geological formation than the lignite in the vicinity of Edmonton.
About three and a half miles above Fort Norman, on the east bank of the river, two extensive exposures of lignitecrop out.
Drift lignite was also found in Marten river near the base of Marten mountain, but it was not traced to its source.
McConnell stated:— “Lignite was found in Peace river sandstone in Peace river in several places, but in seams too small to be workable.
The lignite there is of inferior quality, and has been burnt in many places for some distance from the surface by fires which have been in existence since the river was first discovered.
Heavy rain detained us here for two days, and we burned a good deal of lignite from the lower seam, as we could not reach the top of the bank to procure wood, and could find only a log or two of driftwood.
That the heat did not come from below, as volcanic heat would have done, is proved by the fact that the lignite beds underneath the porcellanite are unburnt.
French lignite comes for the most part from the department of Bouches-du-Rhone (near Fuveau).
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