Sentence Examples

  • Some coals occur in the Millstone Grit horizons.
  • It doesn't have the glitz of the downtown competition nor the grit of its International District counterparts.
  • The steaks are accompanied by your choice of exquisitely tasting side dishes such as grit fritters, sautéed spinach and fresh asparagus among others.
  • The Coal Measures repose upon the Millstone Grit; the largest area of these rocks lies on the east, where they are conterminous with the coalfields of Yorkshire and Nottingham.
  • Five well-contrasted types of scenery in Derbyshire are clearly traceable to as many varieties of rock; the bleak dry uplands of the north and east, with deep-cut ravines and swift clear streams, are due to the great mass of Mountain Limestone; round the limestone boundary are the valleys with soft outlines in the Pendleside Shales; these are succeeded by the rugged moorlands, covered with heather and peat, which are due to the Millstone Grit series; eastward lies the Derbyshire Coalfield with its gently moulded grasscovered hills; southward is the more level tract of red Triassic rocks.
 
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