How to Use coal seam in a Sentence

coal seam

noun
  • In fact, not a single coal seam has been found in rocks of this vintage anywhere in the world.
    — Chris Mays, Scientific American, 23 June 2022
  • Beyond the bridge the road twisted past soft cliffs smoking with burning coal seams.
    — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Or rather, the coal seam under what used to be the town of Centralia was burning.
    — Carrie Arnold, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2019
  • The Pittsburgh coal seam is about 20 feet below the surface in that area.
    — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
  • In addition, Toor said, Craig 1 was built near a coal seam that has had all of its coal mined.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Many researchers believe the disease’s new intensity stems in part from the size of the coal seams being mined.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 16 May 2017
  • The method involves digging vertical pits down into a hillside, until the coal seam is reached.
    — Krishna Pokharel, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2018
  • After the coal seams were depleted the site was left flattened, carved with dirt roads and stripped of vegetation.
    — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
  • Eventually, this carbon-rich system transformed into the thick coal seams mined around the world today.
    — Deming Wang, National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The depth to the coal seam in this area is approximately 20 feet, a department spokesperson said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2024
  • New gas source Geologists had suspected there was methane gas buried in Australia’s vast coal seams.
    — Rachel Pannett, WSJ, 10 July 2017
  • Crews will excavate down to the coal seam that is 6 to 8 feet thick, bringing the smoldering material to the surface.
    — Tom Howarth follow, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
  • It was followed by a second unconventional resource called coalbed methane (coal seam gas in Australia).
    — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • In a string of towns running along a coal seam, the sparkle of small-town drag queens and kings colors a way of life rooted in soot, family and a conservative understanding of the world.
    — Carolyn Kaster, Fortune, 3 July 2023
  • After knocking down trees, energy firms would literally blast the tops off mountains in search of coal seams, carelessly dumping rubble in nearby streams.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
  • These passages allowed the fire to spread to the coal seam underneath the town and expand along four fronts, eventually affecting a surface area about two miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide.
    — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2011
  • Recently, there has been a resurgence of severe cases of the disease in Appalachian mines, thought in part to be caused by thinner coal seams and more powerful equipment that kicks up more dust.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2018
  • Bomfleur was looking at several such cocoons that had been collected in 2005, from a coal seam beneath an Antarctic mountain.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2012
  • If a coal seam burns through the road, asphalt could crack open and sink, swallowing people and cars and unleashing a hellish scenario that might finally make people pay attention to what is going on beneath their feet.
    — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2011
  • Again the intention is to hark back to Wrexham’s industrial heritage, specifically the jagged and uneven edges of coal seams during the area’s mining heyday.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The mine operator has drilled at least two emergency boreholes into the mine to sample its air and craft a plan for putting out the fire smoldering in a coal seam, hopefully without destroying the mine in the process.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Most of the coal fires in Borneo start when local farmers and plantation owners burn brush to clear land for planting, accidentally igniting a coal seam just under the surface.
    — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2011
  • What to see today The highlight of a visit to the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine is a ride on a mining cart through the former coal seams.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Then, in 1959, miners working coal seams broke through the bed of the Susquehanna river, which flowed into the caverns below like bathwater swirling down a plughole.
    — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Origin Energy is one of three energy companies that operate coal seam gas wells in the region, and released a statement saying the gas was naturally occurring.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2016
  • Researchers analyzed evidence of Middle Jurassic paleo-wildfires in a coal seam in a paleomire in the Ordos Basin.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • In the decades since, silica dust has become a major problem as Appalachian miners cut through layers of sandstone to reach less accessible coal seams in mountaintop mines where coal closer to the surface has long been tapped.
    — Matthew Daly, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
  • In the decades since, silica dust has become a major problem as Appalachian miners cut through layers of sandstone to reach less accessible coal seams in mountaintop mines where coal closer to the surface has long been tapped.
    — Leah Willingham and Matthew Daly, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
  • The Powder River Basin, which plays host to massive coal seams and some of the world's largest coal mines, lies mainly in Wyoming and in recent years has churned out 40% of the country's product.
    — Mark Olalde, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Advocates say advanced drilling technology means younger workers are cutting into more layers of rock containing silica with thinner coal seams in geological formations.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024

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