coal-measures

Possibly the true coal-measures may underlie it, especially if the rocks east of Petra be, as some travellers state, a region of the

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It fills a vertical fissure, which was cut through the sandstones and shales of the coal-measures; in the sandstones it remained open, in the shales it has been closed by the yielding of the rock.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various

A large proportion of the plants of the coal-measures were ferns, some authorities say one-half.

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

The native stones we Liverpool architects have at command are all sandstones belonging to the geological division called the Trias, or, in older phraseology, the "New Red Sandstone," which lies above the coal-measures.

The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Various

I have heard that half the plants the remains of which are found buried in the coal-measures are ferns, but ferns which are now known to us as but three feet in height, appear in those early times of our earth's history to have been grand trees with trunks three feet through, and fronds of great length.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

Fuci, the earliest vegetable fossils as yet detected, are not, it has been remarked, the lowest forms of aquatic vegetation; neither are the plants of the coal-measures the very lowest, though they are a low form, of land vegetation.

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Anonymous

It was originally invented by M. Triger to keep the water expelled from the sheet-iron cylinders which he sunk through quick-sands in reaching the coal-measures in the vicinity of the river Loire in France.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

At one of the lectures he had handed down for inspection a very rare and costly fossil, from the coal-measures, I think; including the matrix, it had about the size and shape of the palm of the hand.

Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction Lane Cooper

All these advantages pertain much more to mining coal or iron than metals, for unsound, wet ground is often the accompaniment of coal-measures, and seldom troubles metal-mines.

Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919

At one of the lectures he had handed down for inspection a very rare and costly fossil, from the coal-measures, I think; including the matrix, it had about the size and shape of the palm of the hand.

Louis Agassiz as a Teacher Cooper, Lane, 1875-1959 1917