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Coal Measures the Coal Measures ⇒
  1. a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
coal′ meas′ures, [Geol.]
  1. Geologycoal-bearing strata.
  2. Geology(caps.) in Europe, a portion of the Carboniferous System, characterized by widespread coal deposits.
  • 1655–65

'Coal Measures' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Carboniferous - Pennsylvanian - measures

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