A mining company is planning to construct an underground coal mine within a thin coal seam that
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A mining company is planning to construct an underground coal mine within a thin coal seam that dips 2° due east. You are the mine engineer, and it is your task to make sure that the mine adits do not fill with water. This requires that each adit has a slope of no less than 1°. In what directions may adits be oriented within the coal seam such that their slope is 1° or steeper?
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Structural Analysis And Synthesis A Laboratory Course In Structural Geology
ISBN: 9781405116527
3rd Edition
Authors: Stephen M. Rowland, Ernest M. Duebendorfer, Ilsa M. Schiefelbein
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