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... Coal Subgroup B. Limestone Subgroup C. Dolomyte Class 2. Subaërial Rocks ... ... ... ... 112 ... ... ... 112 115 ... 120 122 122 122 ... ... Group D. Mechanically , chemically , and organically formed ... Subgroup A. Coal ...
... Coal Subgroup B. Limestone Subgroup C. Dolomyte Class 2. Subaërial Rocks ... ... ... ... 112 ... ... ... 112 115 ... 120 122 122 122 ... ... Group D. Mechanically , chemically , and organically formed ... Subgroup A. Coal ...
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... coal . Var . a . Cannel coal . Subvar . a . Parrot coal . b . Horn coal . c . Torbanyte . b . Splint coal . c . Culm . d . Bituminous shale . e . Carbonaceous shale . B. Limestone . Subvar . a . Batt , or bass . b . Dauks . c . Kelve ...
... coal . Var . a . Cannel coal . Subvar . a . Parrot coal . b . Horn coal . c . Torbanyte . b . Splint coal . c . Culm . d . Bituminous shale . e . Carbonaceous shale . B. Limestone . Subvar . a . Batt , or bass . b . Dauks . c . Kelve ...
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... Coal . Var . a . Peat . Subvar . a . White turf . b . Brown turf . c . Black or Stone turf . d . Gas turf . b . Lignyte or Brown coal . Subvar . a . Woody lignyte . b . Compact lignyte . c . Jet . c . Black coal or Steinkohle . Subvar ...
... Coal . Var . a . Peat . Subvar . a . White turf . b . Brown turf . c . Black or Stone turf . d . Gas turf . b . Lignyte or Brown coal . Subvar . a . Woody lignyte . b . Compact lignyte . c . Jet . c . Black coal or Steinkohle . Subvar ...
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... coal . c . Cherry coal . Var . d . Anthracyte . Subvar . a . Native coke . Subgroup B. Surface deposits and accumulations . Var . a . Boulder - clay - drift . Subvar . a . Calcareous . b . Argillous . c . Arenaceous . b . Moraine drift ...
... coal . c . Cherry coal . Var . d . Anthracyte . Subvar . a . Native coke . Subgroup B. Surface deposits and accumulations . Var . a . Boulder - clay - drift . Subvar . a . Calcareous . b . Argillous . c . Arenaceous . b . Moraine drift ...
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... coal in Staffordshire and elsewhere . The dykes of " white - rock " can be traced into masses of ordinary dark - coloured doleryte . b . Aphanyte - doleryte ; Basalt . -Very compact ; often called " Basalt ; " the latter name , how ...
... coal in Staffordshire and elsewhere . The dykes of " white - rock " can be traced into masses of ordinary dark - coloured doleryte . b . Aphanyte - doleryte ; Basalt . -Very compact ; often called " Basalt ; " the latter name , how ...
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A Handy Book of Rock Names: With Brief Descriptions of the Rocks (1873) G. Henry Kinahan No preview available - 2008 |
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aggregate of quartz amphibole Amygdaloidal appear Arenaceous Argillous Augyte basic beds Bituminous Breccia Calcareous called Carbonaceous Chloritic classed clay coal colour compact Concretionary conglomerate Conglomeritic constituents containing Cotta crystalline crystals Cupriferous deposited Derivate rocks Diabase Dioryte Dolomitic drift dykes earth elvanyte Euryte felsitic felspar felspathic felstone Ferruginous Fibrous fissile foliation formed gneiss Gneissoid gneissyte granite granitoid granityte granular grit Group Hematitic Hornblendic igneous rocks ingenite rocks intrusive granite Ireland Jukes labradorite lamination latter layers less Lignyte limestone marcasite marl mass matrix metamorphic metamorphosed mica Micaceous minerals Nodular occur oligoclase oligoclase granite Ophyte orthoclase passage-rock Plutonic rocks Porphyritic Protogene pyrite pyroxene quartz Quartzose quartzyte reddish Ribaned ripidolite sand sandstone schist schistose sedimentary rocks shale siliceous slate slaty sometimes Spheroidal Steatyte Structural Varieties Subgroup Subvar Subvarieties surface Syenyte talc Talcose texture Trachyte tuff Tuffose turf usually Varieties in Composition veins of segregation Vesicular Volcanic weather Whinstone