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Windows to the Past: How U of I researchers use coal balls to answer ...

Windows to the Past: How U of I researchers use coal balls to answer ...

What is a coal ball? It's an archive of the past, a moment frozen in time. It's a perfectly preservedwindow into what plants used to be like 300 million year...

Coal ball Definition Meaning MerriamWebster

Coal ball Definition Meaning MerriamWebster

coal ball: [noun] a nodule found in coal usually composed of calcite or silica and carbonaceous matter and having fragmentary or microscopic plant remains.

Formation and distribution of coal balls in the Herrin Coal ...

Formation and distribution of coal balls in the Herrin Coal ...

Large areas of concentrated coal balls (permineralized peat) up to 4 m thick obstructed longwall mining in the Herrin Coal at the Old Ben No. 24 mine. The largest coal‐ball area mapped contained >1500 m3; several areas contained >400 m3 of coal balls. In‐mine mapping established that there were two types of roof (freshwater and marine), and that the coal balls were spatially correlated ...

Modern analogs reveal the origin of Carboniferous coal balls

Modern analogs reveal the origin of Carboniferous coal balls

The pedogenic formation of coal balls by CO2 degassing through the rootlets of arborescent lycopsids. Coal balls are calcium carbonate accumulations that permineralized peat in paleotropical PermoCarboniferous (∼320250 Ma) mires. The formation of coal balls has been debated for over a century yet a..

The Formation and Significance of Carboniferous Coal Balls

The Formation and Significance of Carboniferous Coal Balls

These coal balls are calcium carbonate concretions that formed in situ in some Carboniferous peats that structurally preserve the 3dimensional anatomy of the plant material present in the peat ...

Geochemistry of autochthonous and hypautochthonous sideritedolomite ...

Geochemistry of autochthonous and hypautochthonous sideritedolomite ...

The coalball discovery helps fill a stratigraphic gap in coalball occurrences in the upper Carboniferous (Bolsovian) of Euramerica. The autochthonous and hypautochthonous coalballs have a similar mineralogical composition and are composed of siderite (81100%), dolomiteankerite (019%), minor quartz and illite, and trace amounts of 'calcite'.

Concretions Fossil Collectors Prehistoric Life

Concretions Fossil Collectors Prehistoric Life

COAL BALLS. Coal balls can be considered concretions, as they are rounded masses of a mineral different from the surrounding rock and deposited before consolidation of the host rock, which is coal. The compost of Coal Age forests settled in the swamps, and calcium carbonate infiltrated masses of matted vegetation, forming the coal balls.

Flora of Palaeozoic coal balls of China | Semantic Scholar

Flora of Palaeozoic coal balls of China | Semantic Scholar

The geographic distribution of coal balls of China and their stratigraphic range are very wide. Fossil plants in coal balls are abundant Floras of coal balls of Jingyuan Gansu contain the same content as those of the Hauptfloz coal of Ruhr and the Kokfloz coal of Ostrau (Namur C) in Europe. Coal balls of Shanxi and Shandong (P1) are abundant and highly diversified with flourished Cathaysian ...

Coal balls | SpringerLink

Coal balls | SpringerLink

Definition. Coal balls are permineralized peat, mainly found in Upper of Europe and North America but also in some Chinese Permian coals. Coal balls are predominantly calcium carbonate which has precipitated in the cell lumina and spaces between the plants within a peat formed in a mire ( Scott and Rex, 1985 ).

Coal balls | SpringerLink

Coal balls | SpringerLink

Coal balls are permineralized peat, mainly found in Upper of Europe and North America but also in some Chinese Permian coals. Coal balls are predominantly calcium carbonate which has precipitated in the cell lumina and spaces between the plants within a peat formed in a mire ( Scott and Rex, 1985 ). Formation

Windows to the deep past | College of Liberal Arts Sciences at Illinois

Windows to the deep past | College of Liberal Arts Sciences at Illinois

"Coal balls perfectly preserve a window into what plants used to be like 300 million years ago.'' The plant life of that age would have resembled alien forests today, Punyasena said. Today's sporebearing plants are tiny, such as ferns, but back then they were as large as trees. The plants and surrounding environment are preserved in ...

Cellulose Acetate Peel Technique Fossil Hunters

Cellulose Acetate Peel Technique Fossil Hunters

FIGURE Etched surface of coal ball slab prior to flooding the surface with acetone. FIGURE Rolling the acetate sheet into position on the coal ball slab. Bottle contains acetone. FIGURE Removing the peel from the coal ball slab surface. FIGURE Coal ball peel, left, and coal ball slab at right from which it was removed.

A marine origin of coal balls in the Midland and Illinois ... Nature

A marine origin of coal balls in the Midland and Illinois ... Nature

Coal balls are carbonate concretions that preserve peat in cellular detail. Despite their importance to paleobotany, the salinity of coalball peat remains controversial. Pennsylvanian coal...

Fossil of the month: Calamites University of Kentucky

Fossil of the month: Calamites University of Kentucky

Thin coal rims or streaks on the outside of some fossils represent all that is left of the original plant tissue. Permineralized Calamites which include original plant details are preserved in rare deposits called coal balls, but these are usually only found in active coal mines, so are not found by collectors.

Modern analogs reveal the origin of Carboniferous coal balls

Modern analogs reveal the origin of Carboniferous coal balls

Introduction. Coal balls were best defined by Seward (1895, p. 85). "In the Coal Measures of England, especially in the neighbourhood of Halifax in Yorkshire, and in South Lancashire, the seams of coal occasionally contain calcareous nodules varying in size from a nut to a man's head, and consisting of about 70% of carbonate of calcium and magnesium, and 30% oxide of iron, sulphide of iron, etc.

Coal Balls Pennsylvanian Coal

Coal Balls Pennsylvanian Coal

Coal Balls. Millions of years ago, in the interval of geologic time called the Pennsylvanian, the presentday coal seams of the Midwest were layers of peatbeds of water soaked and somewhat rotted plant debris accumulated in thickly forested swamps. Deep burial by layers of sediments during a vast span of time changed almost all the peat into ...

Petrified Lepidophloios Specimens from Iowa Coal Balls

Petrified Lepidophloios Specimens from Iowa Coal Balls

cium cal.'borrate and pyrite, commonly referred to as "coal balls." In central Iowa such coal balls frequently occur in the coal seams of the Des Moines Series, Cherokee Group, of Middle Pennsylvanian age (Landis, 1965). Although the occurrence of petrified Lepidophloios speci­ mens in Iowa coal balls has previously been noted by An­ drews

Fossil Focus: Coal swamps PALAEONTOLOGY[online]

Fossil Focus: Coal swamps PALAEONTOLOGY[online]

Coal balls often form in acidic peats, or when seawater permeates the compressed plant matter. The carbonate forms a hardened ball that resists compression throughout burial, thereby preserving the plant remains in exceptional detail; even cellular details can be retained. Such structures can be studied using a range of techniques.

Coalball floras of the NamurianWestphalian of Europe

Coalball floras of the NamurianWestphalian of Europe

As a result, the coalball floras of the Westphalian AB from Europe document a short span of time (less than 5 millions years). These floras correspond to the maximum domi nance of lycopod trees with up to 96% of peat biomass (Phillips and Peppers, 1984). An interes ting exception is the new assemblage described from Spain where ...

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