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Bride cake
Mining; General mining
A black, highly carbonaceous slickensided shale with Carbonicola shells, in the Adwalton stone or Flockton thick coal; also, dirty smudgy coal in the roof of the Stanley Main in the Snydale-don Pedro ...
Lydian stone
Mining; General mining
A black, flinty stone, such as a silicified shale or slate, or a variety of quartz allied to chert or jasper, whose smoothed surface was formerly used to test the purity or fineness of alloys of gold ...
Touchstone
Mining; General mining
A black, flinty stone, such as a silicified shale or slate, or a variety of quartz allied to chert or jasper, whose smoothed surface was formerly used to test the purity or fineness of alloys of gold ...
Basanite
Mining; General mining
A black, flinty stone, such as a silicified shale or slate, or a variety of quartz allied to chert or jasper, whose smoothed surface was formerly used to test the purity or fineness of alloys of gold ...
Blanket sand
Mining; General mining
A blanket deposit of sand or sandstone of unusually wide distribution, typically an orthoquartzitic sandstone deposited by a transgressive sea advancing for a considerable distance over a stable ...
Bright cake
Mining; General mining
A black, highly carbonaceous slickensided shale with Carbonicola shells, in the Adwalton stone or Flockton thick coal; also, dirty smudgy coal in the roof of the Stanley Main in the Snydale-don Pedro ...
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