Sea Coal is what coal washing up on beaches is/was called in the UK, though coal washes up on beaches for various reasons around the world. In many places (like Alaska and Pennsylvania), it is called “beach coal” interchangeably.

2001年7月31日 · Q: WHAT is the origin of sea-coal? Is it waste from mines such as Horden, Blackhall and others that returned to the beaches by wave action or is it in origin some coal-bearing seam that comes...

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Sea coaling involves hard physical labour, raking and shovelling up the washed up shards of coal, which are heavy and water sodden - often twice a day at low tide. A sea coaler can harvest up to a tonne of coal every day.

Sea coal is a type of coal found in coastal regions, often washed ashore by tides and currents. Historically, it was primarily collected from beaches and used as a fuel source. The term now includes any coal found near the sea.

sea-coal 1) This early word for ‘coal’ has been explained in a variety of ways but one important theory is that it first described coal which had been cast ashore from seams exposed on the sea bed.

2024年9月27日 · coal from inside the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches, from which it can be collected and sold.

Sea coal is a term used in the past to refer to a type of coal that washed ashore from undersea coal seams. It is also sometimes used more broadly to refer to coal that was transported by sea, particularly in Britain.

Definition of sea coal i. Old name for bituminous coal; so named either because it was exported by sea from collieries in coastal districts, or because it was at first applied to coal washed ashore from deposits below sea level.