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... 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 . a . Caking coal . b . Non 24 HANDY - BOOK ...
... 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 . a . Caking coal . b . Non 24 HANDY - BOOK ...
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... Turf , ( b . ) Brown Turf , ( c . ) Black , or Stone Turf , ( d . ) Gas or Candle Turf . Peat , or Bog , varies in appearance and texture , according to the position in which it is situated , and the rate at which the accumulation was ...
... Turf , ( b . ) Brown Turf , ( c . ) Black , or Stone Turf , ( d . ) Gas or Candle Turf . Peat , or Bog , varies in appearance and texture , according to the position in which it is situated , and the rate at which the accumulation was ...
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... Turf , ( b . ) Brown Turf , and ( c . ) Black , or Stone Turf while the Mountain - bog only gives ( b . ) Brown , and ( c . ) Black Turf . On both there is an un- profitable surface or " clearing " ( more or less living organic matter ) ...
... Turf , ( b . ) Brown Turf , and ( c . ) Black , or Stone Turf while the Mountain - bog only gives ( b . ) Brown , and ( c . ) Black Turf . On both there is an un- profitable surface or " clearing " ( more or less living organic matter ) ...
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... turf , and the latter than the White turf ; while the subordinate parts of each have re- spectively more ash than the portions above them . The plants growing on the surface collect their inorganic food from the atmosphere , and after ...
... turf , and the latter than the White turf ; while the subordinate parts of each have re- spectively more ash than the portions above them . The plants growing on the surface collect their inorganic food from the atmosphere , and after ...
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... turf Catsbrain Catshead Clod ... ... ... ... Cellular Limestone Cement - stone Clay - ironstone Clay - schist Clay - slate Clinkstone ... Coal - clay Coal - seat Common Coal Common Ophyte Compact Augyte Concretionary Mica - schist Cone ...
... turf Catsbrain Catshead Clod ... ... ... ... Cellular Limestone Cement - stone Clay - ironstone Clay - schist Clay - slate Clinkstone ... Coal - clay Coal - seat Common Coal Common Ophyte Compact Augyte Concretionary Mica - schist Cone ...
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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