The Geology of Coal and Coal-Mining (Classic Reprint)

Many branches, therefore, of strictly scientific or of general interest receive scanty notice. For the same reason simple geological terms in almost daily use by the miner are explained and illustrated, while the terminology used in the petrological descriptions of igneous rocks is not elucidated. In the account given of the Foreign Coalfields it will be noticed that a geological and not a geographical arrangement has been adopted. Except in a very few cases, references have been intentionally omitted in the text, and indebtedness is here freely acknowledged for information obtained from the Reports of various Geological Surveys at home and abroad, and from the Final Report of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies for 1905. The author wishes to express his thanks to the Council of the Palseontographical Society for permission to reproduce from its volumes the figures of fossils given on Fig.
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