 | 1876 - 862 pages
...lustrous, and, like asphaltum, is destitute of structure, but differs from it in fusibility and in its relation to various solvents. It differs from true...of vegetable tissues, and in its mode of occurrence ae a veiu and not as a bed. The vein occupies an irregular and nearly vertical fissure, and varies... | |
 | Geological Survey of Canada - 1876 - 166 pages
...conchoidal fracture, and, like asphaltum, is destitute of structure, but differs in fusibility and in its relation to various solvents. It differs from true...vegetable tissues, and in its mode of occurrence, as a vein, and not as a bed. The vein occupies an irregular and nearly vertical fissure, and varies... | |
 | 1877 - 804 pages
...lustrous, and, like asphaltuni, IH demllulr of structure, but differs from It In fusibility aud In its relation to various solvents. It differs from true...containing no traces of vegetable tissues, and in Us mode of occurrence as a vein and nut as a bed. The vein occupies an Irregular and nearly vertical... | |
 | 1877 - 280 pages
...lustrous, and like asphaltum, is destitute of structure, but differs from it in feasibility, and in its relation to various solvents. It differs from true coal in being of one qeality throughout, in containing no traces of vegetable tissues, and in its mode of occurrence as... | |
 | Canada. Department of Agriculture - 1882 - 84 pages
...structure, but differs in fusibility and in its relation to various solvents. From the true coal it differs in being of one quality throughout, in containing no traces of vegetable tissues, and in its mode of occurence, which is that of a vein and not that of a true bed. This vein occupies an irregular and... | |
 | Friedrich von Hellwald - 1883 - 756 pages
...manganese, gypsum, and building stone are found in this province, and also the mineral albcrtitc, whk.h differs from true coal in being of one quality throughout,...vegetable tissues, and in its mode of occurrence, as a vein, and not as a bed. The vein occupies an irregular and nearly vertical fissure, and varies... | |
 | Sir Arthur James Richens Trendell - 1886 - 570 pages
...manganese, gypsum, and building stone are found in this province, and also the mineral albertite, which differs from true coal in being of one quality throughout,...vegetable tissues, and in its mode of occurrence, as a vein, and not as a bed. The vein occupies an irregular and nearly vertical fissure, and varies... | |
 | Iron and Steel Institute - 1886 - 780 pages
...structure, but differs in fusibility and in its relation to various solvents. From the true coal it differs in being of one quality throughout, in containing...mode of occurrence, which is that of a vein and not that of a true bed. This vein occupies an irregular and nearly vertical fissure, has a varying thickness... | |
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It resembles the latter closely in appearance, being very black, brittle and lustrous, with a broad conchoidal fracture, and, like asphaltum, is destitute of structure, but differs in fusibility and in its relation to various solvents. It differs from... 