coalbin (kolbin)

A bin or receptacle for and considerable dense smoke. Coal occurs in all the geological formations, from the lowest in which land- plants have been found (the Devonian) up to the highest; but the coal of the great manufacturing countries, Eng- land, France, Germany, and the eastern United States, is coal. nearly all of the same geological age, and is obtained from the formation called the Carboniferous. (See carboniferous .) The coal of Australia, India, and a part of that of China is of later geological age than the Carboniferous, being Mesozoic, and not Paleozoic. There is also a large quantity of good coal in various parts of the world in formations even more recent than the Mesozoic. In general, however, from the time of the Carboniferous on, the conditions