The History and Description of Fossil Fuel, the Collieries and Coal Trade of Great Britain, by the Author of the 'Treatise on Manufactures in
by John Holland (9781150098338)

Title: The History and Description of Fossil Fuel, the Collieries and Coal Trade of Great Britain, by the Author of the 'treatise on Manufactures in Metal'. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1841 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. NATURAL HISTORY OF COAL. Nature and origin of Coal -- Different opinions which have been entertained on that subject -- Hypothetical queries answered -- Inferences and illustrations of the vegetable origin of Coal -- Chemical investigations of Mr. Hatchelt -- Three conditions of Fossil Fuel; submerged forests, lignites or bituminizedwood, and true Coal -- Description of the Bovey Coal formation -- Supposed state of the atmosphere at the period when the Coal Vegetables fiourished -- Remarks on the prodigious supply of materials -- Forests and drift wood -- Have the vegetable matlers forming the Coal strata been floated from a distance, or did they originally grow in situations near to those places where, in their changed condition, they are now found ? -- Causes which may have operated in effecting the bituminization of the Coal plants -- Opinions of Mr. Penn and others -- Supposed peaty origin of Coal -- Anthracite. the formations or suites of strata already briefly described towards the close of Chapter II., that containing the carbonaceous deposits is the most interesting: its age and composition, involve problems Avhich engage the researches and excite the speculations, not of the mineral geologist only, but also of persons addicted to the study of pure mineralogy and chemistry. Numerous treatises have at different times been devoted directly or incidentally to disquisitions upon the nature and origin of coal; and, as might be ex...

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