The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 6. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1878 |
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... basins . - The two chief causes which tend to counteract these effects of terrestrial radiation are forests and sheets of water . If a deep lake fills the basin , the cold air which is poured down on its surface having cooled the ...
... basins . - The two chief causes which tend to counteract these effects of terrestrial radiation are forests and sheets of water . If a deep lake fills the basin , the cold air which is poured down on its surface having cooled the ...
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... BASIN Length about 11 miles New Bowson Pit U PPE A U FIG . 2 SOUTH PART OF THE Length 71⁄2 miles LANCASHIRE COALFIELD Audenshaw S T R OPENSHAW PER COAL MEA S Astley Pit Dukinfield C MIDDLE SOD MINE . BLAND ROGER ARD COAL ME A SUR E S ...
... BASIN Length about 11 miles New Bowson Pit U PPE A U FIG . 2 SOUTH PART OF THE Length 71⁄2 miles LANCASHIRE COALFIELD Audenshaw S T R OPENSHAW PER COAL MEA S Astley Pit Dukinfield C MIDDLE SOD MINE . BLAND ROGER ARD COAL ME A SUR E S ...
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... basins , entirely cir- cumscribed by the lower members of the carboniferous series ; 2. Those in which one limb of the basin only is visible , the opposite one being obscured by Permian or other strata of newer date ; and 3. Those in ...
... basins , entirely cir- cumscribed by the lower members of the carboniferous series ; 2. Those in which one limb of the basin only is visible , the opposite one being obscured by Permian or other strata of newer date ; and 3. Those in ...
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... basin . The coals and accompanying ironstone are generally thicker and more abundant on the south than on the north coast . The workable coals in this division amount to about 50 feet , in seams varying from 3 to 9 feet in thickness ...
... basin . The coals and accompanying ironstone are generally thicker and more abundant on the south than on the north coast . The workable coals in this division amount to about 50 feet , in seams varying from 3 to 9 feet in thickness ...
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... basin of Cheadle , or Froghall , which is chiefly remarkable for a band of cal- careous iron ore formerly exported to Staffordshire , but now nearly exhausted . The main or western portion con sists of a mass of strata about 5000 feet ...
... basin of Cheadle , or Froghall , which is chiefly remarkable for a band of cal- careous iron ore formerly exported to Staffordshire , but now nearly exhausted . The main or western portion con sists of a mass of strata about 5000 feet ...
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