10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE COAL MEASURES»
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the Coal Measures in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Report of an Examination of
the Coal Measures Including Iron ...
George Wurtz Hughes. formation appears to have been remarkably regular, and I
have not found one well-established exception to that law. The mountains in the
vicinity of Cumberland, to contain the thick stratum of coal, would have to be at ...
George Wurtz Hughes, 1836
2
Taxonomical studies on
the fructifications of
the ...
In the iron stone nodules of the coal measures which 'are to 'be correlated most
probably with the Lower Radnice coal measure or perhaps still more probably
with the Plzefi coal measures. Brasy near Radnice. -- 'In the hanging shales of
the ...
3
Industrial Growth and Population Change
The latter is not certain because the coal measures may exist at a great depth.
The field as a whole possesses greater coal reserves than any other on the
European Continent west of Russia: greater reserves indeed than the total of the
other ...
4
Annual Report on
the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania ...
In the Anthracite coal region, and Bituminous coal tract of Broad Top, the coal
measures are to be considered as beginning with the first beds above the red
shale stratum before described; for, notwithstanding that the lowest rocks are
destitute ...
Pennsylvania. State Geologist (1836-1841), 1836
5
The Silurian System, Founded on Geological Researches in
the ...
Domes of Wenlock Limestone, near Dudley, rise through the coal measures, thus
separating one portion of the field from the other ; and the same rock, when not
upraised, is found beneath the coal at Dudley Port. See Map and woodcuts, p.
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1839
6
The Texan Permian and its Mesozoic types of fossils
In those regions where the Coal Measures or their equivalent are recognizable
certain strata are sometimes found resting upon them which have been referred
to the Permian, but those strata are, as a rule, not distinctly separable from the ...
Charles Abiathar White, Geological Survey (U.S.), 1891
7
Outlines of
the Geology of England and Wales, with an ...
Geological, since the facts it discloses are extremely curious ; and economical
since it supplies London, and the east and south coasts of England with coal,
besides what is consumed by the inhabitants themselves. The coal-measures of
this ...
William Daniel Conybeare, William Phillips, 1822
8
Annual Report on
the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania
... the base of the mounteins, near Towanda, at the eastern extremity of the great
bituminous coal region, it ranges westward in a broad belt, parallel to the coal
measures on their northern margin, through AND SHALES. 61.
Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, Henry Darwin Rogers, 1838
9
Anzin
Coal Company, 1800-1833: Big Business in
the Early ...
The dieves, however, formed a sort of waterproof roof that prevented any surface
water from leaking into the coal measures. Underground, the niveau was a costly
nuisance to the coal miner of 1800; above ground, in some places it hampered ...
10
The Penny Magazine of
the Society for
the Diffusion of ...
MINERAL KINGDOM.-SscTioNlS. COM.. GKOI.OOICAI. SITUATION. — (
Continued.) WE have said (hat the coal-measures consist of a. series of beds of
sandstones, shales, clays and coal, lying one above another in repeated
alternations ; but ...
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