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ˈɡænɪstə


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WHAT DOES GANNISTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ganister

A ganister is hard, fine-grained quartzose sandstone, or orthoquartzite, used in the manufacture of silica brick typically used to line furnaces. Ganisters are cemented with secondary silica and typically have a characteristic splintery fracture. Cornish miners originally coined this term for hard, chemically and physically inert silica-cemented quartzose sandstones, commonly, but not always found as seatearths within English Carboniferous coal measures. This term is now used for similar quartzose sandstones found typically as seatearths in the Carboniferous coal measures of Nova Scotia, the United States, and the Triassic coal-bearing strata of the Sydney Basin in Australia. Where a ganister underlies coal as a seatearth, it typically is penetrated by numerous root traces. These root traces typically consist of carbonaceous material. Ganisters that contain an abundance of fossil roots, which appear as fine carbonaceous, pencil-like streaks or markings, are called “pencil ganisters”. In other cases, the root traces consist of fine, branching nodules, called “rhizoliths”, which formed around the roots before they decayed.

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GANNISTER

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WORDS THAT END LIKE GANNISTER

assister · at-risk register · barrister · blister · cash register · demister · deputy minister · faster · finance minister · foreign minister · glister · half-sister · health minister · kapellmeister · kid sister · klister · magister · prime minister · real-estate register · stepsister · twister

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GANNISTER»

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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the ...
Gannister Coal. Do. Do. | Do. Do. | Do. Do. Featheredge Coal. Do. j- Gannister Coal. Do. Do. fLower Mine Foot, be- < low the Gannister L Coal. J- Gannister Beds. Coal < above the Lower L Yard Mine. Gannister Coal. Do. | Do. j- Do. | Do. Do.
‎1864
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Memoirs
About 12 yards above the Lower Foot mine is the Gannister coal, which at Doffcocker colliery, near Bolton, presents the following section : — Section at Doffcocker Colliery, near Bolton. FT. IN. Black shales, many yards in thickness.
Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1862
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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of ...
I" Gannister Beds. Coal •j above the Lower I Yard Mine. V Upper Foot Mine. Featheredge Coal. Gannister Coal. Do. Do. | Do. Do. | Do. Do. Featheredge Coal. Do. V Gannister Coal. Do. Do. ["Lower Mine Foot, be- < low the Gannister L Coal. f" ...
Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1864
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The Geologist
At Whitworth, Wardle, etc., portions of the Gannister coal, where it originally cropped out all round some of the hills, have been entirely worked out, and small workings are commenced on the lower foot- mine. The Gannister coal at Bacup is  ...
Samuel Joseph Mackie, 1863
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The Geologist
At Whitworth, Wardle, etc., portions of the Gannister coal, where it originally cropped out all round some of the hills, have been entirely worked out, and small workings are commenced on the lower foot- mine. The Gannister coal at Bacup is  ...
‎1863
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Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society
Grey Metals 3 White Flaggy Rock, marked with Red streaks and edges 4 Dark Shale, containing Shells of the genera Pecten, Goniatites, &c 5 Coal (Gannister), excellent for Smithy purposes, and often called the "Rabbit" and "Mountain" mine,  ...
‎1841
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The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London
But it should be observed that the species in these bands are sometimes different from those in the Gannister beds, most of which have descended from the Carboniferous Limestone. Thus, out of about 29 species determined by Salter from the ...
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Ancient Plants : Being a Simple Account of the Past ...
The second type of seam is that in which the underclay floor isnot present, and is replaced either by shales orby aspecial very hard rock ofa finely granular nature called “gannister”. In the gannister floor itisusual tofind traces of rootlets ...
Marie C. Stopes, 2014
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Derbyshire
In Derbyshire they are divided into the Middle Coal Measures about 2300 feet in thickness, and the lower or Gannister series, which is about I o00 feet. The Middle Coal Measures consist of sandstones, shales, and clays with ironstones and ...
Arthur Mee, 1949
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On secondary enlargements of mineral fragments in certain rocks,
16, 26, 32, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 43 "Gannister" of Yorkshire.. 11 Greywackes .18, 19 , 26, 27, 32, 36, 37, 38 Huronian rocks 23 Keweenawan sandstones 38 loose sandstones 11, 13-16, 23, 35 mica-schists 21, 30, 31 Potsdam sandstones 39, ...
Roland Duer Irving, Charles Richard Van Hise, 1884
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