scholarly journals XVI.—On the Mid-Lothian and East-Lothian Coal-Fields

1839 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 253-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Milne
Keyword(s):  
Relative Position ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Limestone Quarries ◽  
Coal Fields

I am not aware of any account having been published of the Coal-fields in East and Mid Lothian, or of any attempt to institute a geological survey of the country in which they are situated. Sinclair, the author of a well known work intituled “Satan's Invisible World,” published also in 1672 a treatise on Hydrostatics, in which he takes notice of the Prestongrange coals, and of the whinstone-dike that intersects them. Williams, in his “Mineral Kingdom” (published) in 1810, gives some information regarding the direction of the Gilmerton and Loanhead coal-seams. But the information contained in both these works, even respecting the coal-strata,—which alone they professed to treat of, is extremely vague, and generally very erroneous. Dr Hibbert was the first geologist who with a scientific eye entered on the district, in order to describe with fulness and accuracy any of its rocks. His discovery of the Saurian remains in the limestone-quarries of Burdiehouse, led him to a minute inspection of the strata in which they were imbedded, and to a consideration of the relative position of these particular strata in the Mid-Lothian coal-field.

V.—The Fossil Flora of the Ingleton Coal-Field (Yorkshire)

1912 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Newell Arber
Keyword(s):  
Geological Survey ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
Upper Carboniferous ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Coal Fields

The Upper Carboniferous rocks of the Ingleton Coal-field in North-West Yorkshire present a difficult study, and at the present time they are very imperfectly known. As mapped by the Geological Survey, there is apparently a perfect succession, passing up from the Yoredales, through the Millstone Grits, to the Lower and Middle Coal-measures. The coal-measures are in part overlain hy a series of red rocks, which have been assigned to the Permian, as in the case of other of the Midland Coal-fields. In the index of the Survey map of the north-eastern portion of the coal-field, the Deep Coal is taken as the top of the Lower, and the bottom of the Middle Coal-measures.

scholarly journals V. On the Geological Structure of the District around Kingswood Hill, near Bristol; with especial reference to the supposed Development of Millstone-grit in that Neighbourhood

1865 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 110-113
Author(s):  
Handel Cossham
Keyword(s):  
Geological Structure ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
The South ◽  
Especial Reference ◽  
Northern Portion ◽  
Geological Map ◽  
The Government ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Coal Fields

I have for some years had serious doubts as to the correctness of the Map of the Geological Survey so for as it relatesto the supposed presence of Millstone-grit in the northern portion of the Bristol Coal-field in the neighbourhood of Kingswood Hill; and in a foot-note to a most valuable lecture delivered by my friend Mr. Robert Etheridge, F.G.S. (of the RoyalSchool of Mines) at the Bristol Mining School in 1857, and published in a volume of Lectures issued by that Institution, Ihad, so long ago as that year, expressed doubts as to the existence of Millstone-grit at the surface near kingswood. Sincethen I have had much greater opportunities of investigating the matter, having taken, with my partners, a large tract of mineral property in that district; and the results of those investigations thoroughly confirm the doubts I had previously entertained, and in fact fully satisfy my mind that what is shown as Millstone-grit on the Government Geological Map, as also on the valuable map lately published by Mr. William Sanders, F.R.S., of Bristol, is really nothing more than one of thesandstones (the ‘Holmes Rock’) so common in the Coal-measures proper, and developed on a grand scale in the Pennant-grit dividing the Upper and Lower Coal-series of all the South-western Coal-fields.

V.—On the Fossil Flora of the Staffordshire Coal Fields.

1914 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kidston
Keyword(s):  
Geological Survey ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Fossil Plants ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
The North ◽  
Coal Fields

The first of this series of papers, that on the “Fossil Plants collected during the sinking of the shaft of the Hamstead Colliery, Great Barr, near Birmingham,” was published in 1888, and the second, dealing with the “Fossil Flora of the Coal Field of the Potteries,” in 1891.Since that date the North Staffordshire Coal Field has been re-surveyed by members of the Geological Survey, and the result of this re-examination of the geology of the Potteries Coal Field was the classification of the strata into several well-defined groups.

scholarly journals On the Geology of tie Beaufort and Ebbw Vale District of the South Wales Coal-field

The Geologist ◽  
1858 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-54
Author(s):  
George Phillips Bevan
Keyword(s):  
Geological Survey ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
The South ◽  
General Terms ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Physical Geology ◽  
Coal Fields

With the exception of the very able memoirs drawn out by Sir H. de la Beehe, in the “Geological Survey,” Vol. I, and the sections of the same survey, as compiled by Mr. David Williams, no coal-field has been so little described or worked out as that of the South Wales basin. Although the work of a master geologist, yet the very nature of these memoirs, describing the general arrangements of the rocks in the southwest of England, altogether precludes any attempt at minute geology, which, indeed, should mostly be supplied by local workers. Other coal-fields have been ably and intimately described, but this particular field only in very general terms. Why it should be so I know not, unless it is that only of late years its vast resources have been opened up, and that its many romantic vallies, teeming with beauty above and brimful of coal and mine beneath, have been made accessible either to the tourist or the mining adventurer. Every year, however, sees new railways opened in Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire; and I have little doubt but that the completion of that magnificent work, the Crumlin viaduct, has done more than anything else to attract persons to that part of South Wales, either from a love of the beautiful, or the scientific interest attached to it. For the study of practical geology in its several aspects, this coal-field possesses many advantages, particularly in physical geology and the peculiar manner in which sections are obtained, owing to the nature of the ground.

scholarly journals III.—Notes on Various Species of Ctenodus found in the Low Main Coal-shale, Newsham Colliery, Northumberland

1869 ◽  
Vol 6 (61) ◽  
pp. 314-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. P. Barkas
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seams ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Coal Fields

For many years the various Coal-shales and other strata associated with the Coal-seams of Northumberland have been known to be rich in the remains of Plants, and the majority of the specimens which are illustrated in Lindley and Hutton's elaborate work on the Flora of the Coal-period were obtained from collieries in Northumberland and the adjoining county, Durham. It is only within the last few years that close attention has been directed to the investigation of the fauna of the Northumberland coal-fields. The first systematic investigator of the fauna of the Carboniferous period in this locality was Mr. Thomas Atthey, late of Cramlington, now of Gosforth; and within the last few years Messrs. Kirby, Sim, Taylor, and Craggs have each secured good collections of the Carboniferous fossils.

scholarly journals IV.—On the Co-relation of the Carboniferous Deposits of Cornbrook, Brown Clee, Harcott, and Coalbrook-dale

1871 ◽  
Vol 8 (86) ◽  
pp. 363-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Jones
Keyword(s):  
Coal Field ◽  
Western Margin ◽  
North East ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Coal Fields

It has not hitherto been clearly made out in what way these Carboniferous patches are related to each other. Some have considered it doubtful whether the three former are in any way represented in the Coalbrook-dale Field. The prevailing impression is, I believe, that the Clee Hill Fields are quite distinct in point of age from any of the Coal tracts surrounding them, and were formed in a depression sufficiently low to receive the Millstone Grit which we find to be wanting in the extensive Coal-fields to the East and North-east, except, let me observe, along the Western margin of the Coalbrook-dale district, where it is not well developed, but still represented. Eastward of that margin, however, it thins out rapidly, and gives way to the Silurian flooring of that Coal-field.

I.—On the Structure and Organisms of the Lower Limestone Shales, Carboniferous Limestone and Upper Limestones of the Forest of Dean

1886 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 529-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Wethered
Keyword(s):  
Total Thickness ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Carboniferous Limestone ◽  
Carboniferous Rock ◽  
Coal Fields

Sir Andrew Ramsay has described the Coal-fields of the Forest of Dean, Somersetshire, and Bristol as outliers of the great Coal-fields of South Wales; there is, however, a marked thinning out in the thickness of the Carboniferous rock in the Forest of Dean as compared with the development of those rocks in South Wales and Bristol. At Clifton, near Bristol, the total thickness of the Carboniferous Limestone is about 2900 feet, at the northern end of the Forest of Dean Coal-field it is about 600 feet.

scholarly journals Ranking of coal seams for underground coal gasification (UCG) in Mazino coal deposit, Tabas coal field, Iran

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Najafi Mehdi ◽  
Mohammad Esmaiel Jalali Seyed ◽  
KhaloKakaie Reza
Keyword(s):  
Coal Gasification ◽  
Underground Coal Gasification ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
Coal Deposit ◽  
Coal Seams
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