There was a horizontal seam, twenty foot thick, sandwiched in the cliff face.
"We lifted one nugget that weighed nine pounds, and we hit some thick seams just loaded with it."
The pit opened up a very thick seam of the whitest and most beautiful marble.
Netherton expanded rapidly in the industrial age and the thick seams of coal underlying the region were extensively mined.
The 'Brora Main' is a 1m to 1.5m thick seam which has been mined in the Brora area.
Some versions do not have the thick inner seam that Wrangler features, making them look more like the fashion brands.
I could see the deep cuts in the earth and the thick horizontal seams of raw coal.
Draglines are used primarily to strip large volumes of overburden away from thick seams of coal.
The mine was sunk to the "Lancashire Black mine", a thick seam of coal.
Cutting across these thick seams can quickly dull even the best shears.