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L63 Coal - open-cast coal mining. Nottinghamshire, UK
Position:
N53°
W001° 30' approx.
Elevation:
250' / 75m approx.
Image format:
35mm
COAL - OPEN-CAST COAL MINING. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, UK
COAL seams from the Carboniferous/Pennsylvanian (Upper Palaeozoic)
era. The remains of lush tropical-rain-forest type vegetation
preserved from 300 million plus years ago. A coal-seam just 18'
(0.5m thick) is excavated at the surface by mechanical equipment.
This seam would have been too thin top have been economically
mined in an underground operation.
Coal has a much higher Carbon and lower volatile content than
Peat (see images B4 & B5 in the regolith.com library). It is much older than Peat and
has been compressed by an over-burden of, in some cases, a great
thickness of rock.
Less detail
Image Trail:
L64 Coal. Nottinghamshire, UK
B4 Peat. County Kerry, Ireland
B5 Peat cutting in mountain area. County Kerry, Ireland
B6 Peat cutting in mountain area. County Kerry, Ireland
Links:
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/gl/cfkd/undp.htm
http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/webcoal/pages/coal3.htm
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