Sentences with phrase «large coal deposits»

Good timing, since new large coal deposits were just found in Xinjiang.

Prior to the emergence of white rot fungi hundreds of millions of years ago, fungi were not capable of breaking down lignin, and the undecayed plant mass became the basis of large coal deposits.

As a point of reference, let's compare its net carbon content with the Gillette Coalfield in the Powder river basin, one of the largest coal deposits in the world.

Some of Australia's largest coal deposits are in the Galilee Basin; if the Galilee Basin coal is to be mined and exported economically it must be shipped out through the Great Barrier Reef, but this has unacceptable environmental consequences.

Not exact matches

Ordos is situated in the center of a region, which has some of the largest deposits of coal in China, and has been transformed in record time from one of the poorest areas of China to one of the wealthiest.

the carbon deposits (coal, gas and oil) are finite and the deforestation of the earth has prevented large amounts of this carbon being recycled back into future carbon deposits.

The annual increments for the past few decades have been slightly larger for oil than for coal, but coal use has accelerated in the past few years, and in the long run coal will be the greatest source because of its larger reserves (discovered deposits) and estimated resources (deposits still to be discovered).

In Pennsylvania the Ridge and Valley region contains one of the world's largest deposits of anthracite coal, once the basis of a thriving mining economy; many of the mines are now shut, oil and gas having replaced coal as the major fuel used to heat homes.