This is an educational booklet from the Training Branch of the National Coal Board from the early 1950s. It provides information on how coal was formed and where it occurs - both within Great Britain and elsewhere in the world.

Index

• Discovery of Coal
• Formation of Coal
• Types of Coal
• Disturbances of Coal Seams
• Coalfields of Great Britain
• Coalfields of the World
• Periods during which the Rocks were formed