Carboniferous

The group with which we have to deal is called the carboniferous or coal bearing system, and it includes four classes of rocks, viz.: 1, sandstone; 2, shale or bind; 3, limestone; 4, coal and underclay. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is one great sheet of old coral-reef and coral-mud, which is now called the carboniferous limestone. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

Coal strata are nearly confined to the group termed the carboniferous formation. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)

You cannot diet a patient from a book, you cannot make up the human body as you would make up a prescription, – so many parts "carboniferous," so many parts "nitrogenous" will constitute a perfect diet for a patient. ❋ Unknown (1860)

All that chemistry can tell us is the amount of "carboniferous" or "nitrogenous" elements discoverable in different dietetic articles. ❋ Unknown (1860)

Coal mining waste or spoil tips are, on the other hand, composed of fairly benign carboniferous sedimentary rocks that could be suitable for viticulture. ❋ Unknown (2011)

From his first, perhaps best book, "The Immense Journey," he showed a gift for transporting his readers across aeonic expanses—evoking the "croaking gloom of carboniferous swamps" and "the surf on Cretaceous beaches where now the wheat of Kansas rolls." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mason has also got a new obsession: the carboniferous period. ❋ Lyda222 (2008)

We found one book about life before the dinosaurs called, "WHEN BUGS WERE BIG," which is actually all about the carboniferous period, and then at the grown-up library, we found another couple that are written for teens that tell the whole story of Earth's pre-dinosaur history. ❋ Lyda222 (2008)

What the hell is the carboniferous period, Lyda, you ask. ❋ Lyda222 (2008)

Across the Channel, the same formation is even thicker, and some caves in France run 1 km deep, all in this carboniferous limestone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I polish off a breaded steak, two pieces of the carboniferous cornbread and a bowl of beans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The high ranges of the Qionglai Mountains are predominantly Triassic siltstone, limestone and slate, and the western half of the Jiajin Mountains, their continuation to the south, are mainly Permo-carboniferous rock. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And in the land and beneath it put he crude oil, grades one through six; and natural gas put he thereunder, and prehistoric carboniferous forests yielding anthracite and other ligneous matter; and all these called he Resources; and he made them Abundant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I do not believe for one moment that undisciplined burning of fossil fuels is harmless, but the most awful consequence of the burning of carboniferous fuels is not the release of CO2 but the large-scale injection ofminute particulate pollutants into the atmosphere. ❋ GayandRight (2009)

From the geological point of view, ancient Paleozoic rocks (carboniferous limestone, slate, coal, conglomerates, quartzite, sandstone) predominate in the central axis, flanked by Mesozoic (limestone, dolomite, sandstone) and Tertiary rocks in the Eastern Basque lower mountains. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He said it went either through the underlying carboniferous strata adapted for such production, westward through Ohio and the Mississippi, or in more probability came eastward through Virginia and up the shore of the Atlantic ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ecoregion 70 is unglaciated, mostly forested, and underlain by horizontally bedded, often carboniferous, sedimentary rock. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ecoregion 72c is largely underlain by Pennsylvanian carboniferous sedimentary rocks of the Sturgis and Carbondale formations that are not exposed in the higher, more rugged, and more wooded Ecoregion 72h. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The hills and mountains of the Central Appalachians (69) are typically underlain by Pennsylvanian carboniferous sedimentary rock. ❋ Unknown (2008)