coal field
an area containing significant coal deposits.
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Fig. 803 is an instance of a convex coal-field exhibited in Staffordshire, at the Castle-hill, close to the town of Dudley.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew UreFrom its situation and importance this coal-field is better known than any other in India.
The area of this coal field is estimated at about thirty-six thousand square miles.
The Elements of Geology | William Harmon NortonIn the centre of the coal-field is an elevated moorland tract formed of the grits and shales of the Millstone Grit series.
We were now in the great coal-field of France; but the miners had fled, and left the plain doubly desolate.
British Dictionary definitions for coalfield
/ (ˈkəʊlˌfiːld) /
an area rich in deposits of coal
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