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Definition: COAL MEASURES

Part of Speech Definition
Expression 1. (Geol.) (a) Strata of coal with the attendant rocks. (b) A subdivision of the carboniferous formation, between the millstone grit below and the Permian formation above, and including nearly all the workable coal beds of the world.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Definition: COAL MEASURES

Part of SpeechDefinition
Expression1. (Geol.) (a) Strata of coal with the attendant rocks. (b) A subdivision of the carboniferous formation, between the millstone grit below and the Permian formation above, and including nearly all the workable coal beds of the world.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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