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coal field
noun
- an area containing significant coal deposits.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of coal field1
First recorded in 1805–15
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Example Sentences
Fig. 803 is an instance of a convex coal-field exhibited in Staffordshire, at the Castle-hill, close to the town of Dudley.
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From its situation and importance this coal-field is better known than any other in India.
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The area of this coal field is estimated at about thirty-six thousand square miles.
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In the centre of the coal-field is an elevated moorland tract formed of the grits and shales of the Millstone Grit series.
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We were now in the great coal-field of France; but the miners had fled, and left the plain doubly desolate.
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