coal field
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of coal field
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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The area includes an abandoned coal field where two underground fires, fueled by coal deposits, have slowly burned over the years.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
Within that wedge lies the great eastern bituminous coal field.
From Time Magazine Archive
The meeting room upstairs at the Ollerton colliery welfare building in the Nottingham-Midlands coal field looked like a converted high school gymnasium.
From Time Magazine Archive
Geologists have already confirmed that it holds great quantities of iron and coal, including perhaps the world's largest coal field, running more than 1,500 miles along the Transantarctic Mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
New and peculiar Fern from Airdrie coal field, 464 126.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
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