10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORCELLANITE»
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porcellanite in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
porcellanite and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective: Volume 2: ...
Geoscientist 1.6 m Porcellanite Lignite Figure WDB 2. WDB: From the cyclic
deposition of Upper Pliocene lignite and clay (upper left) to the Pleistocene
occurrence of coal fires that burned less than 0.781 Ma. Self-heating and
spontaneous ...
Glenn B. Stracher, Anupma Prakash, Ellina V. Sokol, 2012
2
Proposed plan of mining and reclamation, East Decker and ...
Outcrops of porcellanite occur on low knolls west of the site. A systematic pickup
based on 8 meter square grid units was conducted. Lithic material types are
predominantly porcellanite with only one flake of chert and one of quartzite
material ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), Geological Survey (U.S.)., Montana. Dept. of State Lands, 1977
3
Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland
Landscapes of Neolithic is the first volume to be devoted solely to the Irish Neolithic, using an innovative landscape and anthropological perspective to provide significant new insights on the period.
These soils formed in material weathered from shale and porcellanite and clinker
from burned out coal veins. They are underlain by scoria. In a respresentative
profile the surface layer is brown loam about 6 inches thick. The subsoil is friable
...
United States Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, 1975
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Report of the Committee on Sedimentation
The term "porcellanite" has always been applied rather consistently to a hard
indurated clay or shale (Kemp used it for the indurated shale adjacent to a burnt
coal bed) that usually possesses a dull cherty appearance. Harker2 states that ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Sedimentation, Thomas Wayland Vaughan, William Henry Twenhofel, 1938
These soils formed in loamy material weathered from shattered porcellanite (
scoria) bedrock. Permeability is moderate in the upper part of the profile and
rapid in the lower part. Slope ranges from 3 to 45 percent. Typical pedon of
Brandenburg ...
United States. Bureau of Soils, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, 1988
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An Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy: ...
... compressed nodules of a greyish-white colour, with a tinge of blue or yellow ; it
yields readily to the knife, and is very refractory in the fire ; by exposure to the air
it becomes soft and falls to pieces, and then becomes plastic. PORCELLANITE.
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Extreme Events: A Physical Reconstruction and Risk Assessment
Overturned slabs of the rock 'porcellanite' on top of a 25 m high headland, Cape
Leveque, Western Australia. These rocks come from a bed of rock that was
originally horizontally bedded. The layering now seen to be orientated in a
number of ...
9
Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV
Zircon grains separated from ash beds in the Rampur shale formation and those
from the Deonar-Porcellanite Formation yielded ages in the range from 1593 ±12
Ma to 1628 ± 8 Ma (Rasmussen et al., 2002). Ray et al. (2002) also dated ...
W. U. Reimold, Roger Lawrence Gibson, 2010
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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
11), from Three Kings, were cut from a very small sample of pale lilac-pink glass
fused to red scoria by yellowish porcellanite. Under the microscope the glass is
colourless, has a refractive index less than that of balsam, and contains abundant
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORCELLANITE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
porcellanite is used in the context of the following news items.
Cairn India Announces Results for the Fourth Quarter and Year …
The well was plugged and abandoned without testing, due to absence of reservoir; Appraisal well NL-3, was drilled for Barmer Hill Porcellanite ... «PR Newswire, Apr 15»
5000 year-old ancient axe uncovered on Lough Erne
It all points to porcellanite though. What's unusual though is the colour, but 5,000 years in Lough Erne is going to put some different colour on it. «Fermanagh Herald, Mar 15»
Sesa Sterlite Limited: Cairn India Announces Third Quarter Financial …
Three appraisal wells, namely DP-2, 3 and 4, were drilled for Barmer Hill Porcellanite reservoirs in the DP field. All three wells encountered ... «PR Newswire, Jan 15»
Derry Stone Age village sheds new light on life 6000 years ago
“Stone axes were made of a type of porcellanite stone which is not local but from the Antrim Plateau. “Similarly the flint is not local to Derry and ... «Belfast Telegraph, Feb 13»
The Mighty Monterey Formation: In Your Future
The rocks changed in this way from diatomite to porcellanite and then to chert. As the rock changed, it fractured, giving the oil room to move. «KQED QUEST, Nov 12»
Preparations in place for Government House open day
Built in 1870 using local porcellanite stone, the house has seen many guests since over its life, including Queen Elizabeth during her 1982 visit ... «ABC Online, Jul 12»
Walk of the Week: Rathlin Island
... behind the house is the black entrance to the cave from which, thousands of years ago, was quarried a hard and durable stone, porcellanite. «Belfast Telegraph, May 12»
Life at the top
Built in 1870 using porcellanite quarried from the cliffs of Fannie Bay and Larrakeyah, the house was made part of the National Estate in 1980. «The Australian, Jul 11»
The eyes have it ... and 11 other tales that captivate
The axe heads, which are made of porcellanite, show very little sign of use, and it is thought they were hoarded away or left as a present or ... «Belfast Telegraph, Oct 09»
The collector
Its walls are made from white porcellanite stone, cut from the cliffs of Darwin Harbour; its clean lines and parabolic concrete arches lend it the look of a crouching ... «The Monthly, Jul 09»
