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Mountains formed by plate convergence
... the vast sheets of sediments deposited in deltas along it's margins. Known as the Late Carboniferous Period (also Pennsylvanian Period), this was a time during which the equator lay along a ... sequences of thick peat beds subsequently preserved as beds of fossil carbon, hence the name Carboniferous Period. These beds were transformed over millions of years into important coal deposits which today ...
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Climate during the Carboniferous Period
... hot and humid climate of the Middle Carboniferous Period was accompanied by an explosion of terrestrial plant life. However by the Late Carboniferous Period Earth's climate had become increasingly ... the significant coal deposits of the Late Carboniferous. Coal Beds of the Carboniferous Period: How the World Looked when they were Deposited COAL During the Upper Carboniferous Period (a.k.a. ...
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West Virginia 300 million years ago
... for hundreds of miles and barely rising above sea level. Geologists call this time the "Carboniferous Period." It was a time when the atmosphere was being dramatically depleted of carbon dioxide ... often if it wasn't for man-made levees holding mother nature back. Since the late 1700's coal in West Virginia has been mined as a domestic fuel, for industrial ...
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