Top and bottom plate name

Rock type

Average thickness/m

Petrographic description

basement layer

siltstone

17

Light gray, off-white, thickly laminated, coarse-grained structure, jagged fracture, hard

direct Top

siltstone

8

Light gray, off-white, thickly laminated, fine-grained structure, moderately fissured, hard.

a coal seam

coal

12.1

Coal, stable - more stable seams

direct bottom

shale

4.9

Grayish black, dark gray, thinly laminated, semihard