Organic Matter in a Coal Ball: Peat or Coal?
- 27 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 217 (4562) , 831-833
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.217.4562.831
Abstract
Chemical analyses of morphologically preserved organic matter in a Carboniferous coal ball reveal that the material is coalified to a rank approximately equal to that of the surrounding coal. Hence, the plant tissues in the coal ball were chemically altered by coalification processes and were not preserved as peat.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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