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Pennsylvanian Period
... .S., creating conditions ideal for coal formation. In West Virginia seams with names like Pittsburgh, Pocahontas, Eagle, and Sewell, were deposited. The geologic units and coal seams listed below are nomenclature currently ... reason the oldest of these coal seams, such as the Pocahontas and Sewell seams, are only found in the southern part of the state and the youngest seams, like the Pittsburgh, are ...
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Appalachian origins revealed through the "coal-rank thermometer"
... it' treasure of coal riches have already been transported away by erosion to the Gulf of Mexico. Coal seams in West ... coal beds-- piling up many thousands of feet of sediments which grew hotter as they sank deeper. Coal seams can be used as a sort of thermometer, indicating by their coal ... F for every 100 feet of burial depth. As coal seams are depressed ever-deeper into the earth under accumulating ...
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Lab III - Preservation (2)
... different ranks (essentially grades of metamorphism) of coal. Coal geologists recognize a continuum of degree of metamorphism in coal: peat - lignite - bituminous coal (A-C) - anthracite. Peat is an ... or dolomite) is particularly common in Carboniferous coal seams (VG 1:9), where whole regions of peat were permineralized. Called coal balls (because of their sometimes round or ellipsoidal ...
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Palaeozoic Forests
... Variscan fold belt Land areas Front of the Variscan fold belt with overthrust Volcanism Coal deposits Abb. 4: Palaeogeographical reconstructions of the Westfalian (4a) and Stephanian (4b). Modified after ... 1990) Stephanian and Rotliegend floras Although the Stephanian is still partly coal-bearing, in the Rotliegend a few thin coal seams are only very locally developed. In practice it appears to be ...
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lycopod picture links
... Lepidostrobus Fossils of Nova Scotia Lepidostrobus Virtual Paleobotany Laboratory coal ball peel Lepidostrobus Virtual Paleobotany Laboratory coal ball peel Lepidostrobus sp. Paläobotanik Münster anatomically preserved have a ... rooting system. Stigmaria rootlet beds are very common and often occur underneath coal seams. Most famous are in situ preserved forest stands with several stigmarian tree ...
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Wood of Calamites
... Coal balls An other example of exceptional preservation is that of the coal balls. These are concretions of calcium carbonate and/or other minerals, occurring in some of the coal seams ... of a diaphragm in a stem of Calamites in a coal ball. Click on the photo for enlargment. Structure of ... is hardly ever preserved. Photos of stems of Calamites in coal ball slides Click on the photo to enlarge it. Click ...
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The evolution of plants: II Carboniferous and Early Permian
... coal seams. In the Piesberg near Osnabrück this is very well visible. Just below the coal seams are the root layers with the remains of the roots of the trees growing in the 'coal ... coal seams. Sadly enough the methods of winning are not fossil-friendly anymore and many of the coal mines have been closed down. Fossils from the coal seams ...
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