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Around the areas of Poynton and Macclesfield, the coal is close to the surface and was easily mined. Below the Coal Measures is the Millstone Grit, which appears towards the Derbyshire border on the flanks of the Peak District dome. [1] The Cheshire Basin is a major sedimentary basin which comprises the larger part of the county.
The Allegheny Group, often termed the Allegheny Formation, [2] is a Pennsylvanian-age geological unit in the Appalachian Plateau.It is a major coal-bearing unit in the eastern United States, extending through western and central Pennsylvania, western Maryland and West Virginia, and southeastern Ohio.
British Coalfields. The Midlothian Coalfield is a coalfield in southeast Scotland situated immediately to the east and southeast of Edinburgh.It is geologically continuous with the East Fife Coalfield beneath the Firth of Forth though the undersea coal reserves have only been partly exploited.
Overburden is also used for all soil and ancillary material above the bedrock horizon in a given area. By analogy, overburden is also used to describe the soil and other material that lies above a specific geologic feature , such as a buried astrobleme , or above an unexcavated site of archeological interest.
The Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield in the English Midlands is one of the smaller British coalfields. [1] The two areas are sometimes separately referred to as the South Derbyshire Coalfield and the Leicestershire Coalfield.
In the mid-nineteenth century, much deeper pits were established and a network of railways was built in the Wrexham area to transport the coal. [ 2 ] A report on the North Wales Coalfield in the 1950s found that the reserves of coal were running low and that in the Denbighshire Coalfield, the geology of the coal-bearing strata dipped rapidly ...
Coal can be found in many areas of Great Britain, as far north as the Midland Valley of Scotland, as far south as Kent, although coal mining has largely been concentrated in the Scottish Midlands, English Midlands, northern England and Wales. Throughout the period, southwest England in particular was affected by the collision of continental plates.
The tunnel roughly follows the synclinal axis of the coal basin it is in. [2] The tunnel drains the Jeansville Coal Basin, which is located between Hazleton and McAdoo. [ 3 ] The Audenried Tunnel is located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the community of Sheppton, Pennsylvania . [ 4 ]