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Coal Mining in the East Neuk of Fife.
Coal mining in Fife has an industrial history of four hundred years, although, in the East Neuk of Fife, despite many accessible and shallow deposits, the industry is long inactive. John McManus provides a survey of the geology and a history of the socio-economic factors that led to the rise and dec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Dunedin Academic Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The geological setting of the East Neuk
- 3. Scotland rocks, bends, breaks and migrates
- 5. Coal formation
- 6. Historical framework for mining in Fife
- 7. On-land transport of the coals
- 8. The main mthods of coal extraction
- 9. The geology of the coal-bearing successions
- 10. The coal seams and mines of the East Neuk
- 11. The coalfield surveys by Dott and Forbes
- 12. Coals of the Lower Limestone Formation around Largoward
- 13. Closing thoughts.