Geology of Coal Deposits of South Limburg, The Netherlands - Including Adjacent German and Belgian Areas

This book offers an up-to-date overview of the coal deposits of South Limburg (Netherlands), the Aachen area (Germany), and the Campine area (Belgium). Although the amount of available literature on these coal deposits is quite vast, the majority of the texts date back to the mid-twentieth century, and most publications focus more on the stratigraphy of the coal layers and the rank of the coal. Moreover, the concept of continental drift is largely ignored in these publications.   
In addition to providing updated information, this book also discusses coal mining in these regions; the formation and petrography of coal; and the geological evolution of Western Europe/the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. In order to explain the tropical nature of the flora in the Carboniferous period, paleogeographic aspects are also taken into account. 

List of contents

 1. Introduction - History of coal mining in Limburg, and adjacent areas.- 2. The Origin and Classification of Coal  - Coalification, macerals, nomenclature of types of coal.- 3. Limburg and adjacent areas in the Carboniferous - Paleogeography, plate tectonics, paleoclimate, position with respect to the equator, the London Brabant Massif and its relation to the coal deposits.- 4. Later burial. Present depth of the coal layers.- 5. Tectonics - uplift and crust extension, the Roergraben, active faults, inactive faults.

Product details

• Authors: J. H. L. Voncken, J.H.L. Voncken
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2019
• EAN: 9783030182854
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3018285-4
• No. of pages: 78
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 5 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 178 g
• Illustrations: XII, 78 p. 49 illus., 43 illus. in color.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; C, geology, Earth and Environmental Science, Structural Geology, Economic Geology, Carboniferous and Coalification