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coal measures

  1. coal beds or strata
  2. sedimentary Carboniferous rocks that include coal-bearing strata

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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