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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coal balls are carbonate concretions that preserve peat in cellular detail. Despite their importance to paleobotany, the salinity of coalball peat remains controversial. Pennsylvanian...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The 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..
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coal balls. Definition and formation: Coal balls are calcareous masses of fossil peat found in coal beds. They are formed in the original peat before it undergoes coalification (DeMaris and others, 1983; Scott and others, 1996). Individual coal balls can be inches to many feet in diameter, and coalball clusters may occupy a small part ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377All of these reconstructions are conceptional and are timeaveraged because of preservational bias. Our present study confirms the composition of the Permian coalswamp community as known from palynology and coalball studies, but resulted in a unique documentation of spatial heterogeneity and ecological gradients.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The 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 (81), dolomiteankerite (019%), minor quartz and illite, and trace amounts of ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coal balls are calcareous peats with cellular permineralization invaluable for understanding the anatomy of Pennsylvanian and Permian fossil plants.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coal balls represent early, peatstage mineralization somewhat analogous to concretions in shale (, Phillips et al., 1976). Although a nuisance for mining, coal balls from these two seams can preserve peatforming plant structures to the cellular level and have been very important in reconstructing Desmoinesian plant biology and ecology ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377A coal ball is a type of concretion, varying in shape from an imperfect sphere to a flatlying, irregular slab. Coal balls were formed in Carboniferous Period swamps and mires, when peat was prevented from being turned into coal by the high amount of calcite surrounding the peat; the calcite caused it to be turned into stone instead.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The evaluation of organic material in the coal balls was based on peel studies from 50 randomly selected coal balls from all areas of the crop. Each coal ball regardless of size was considered as one unit. From many of the coal balls numerous peels were obtained but only 2 peels oriented normally to each other were evaluated from each concretion.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377DOI: / Corpus ID: ; On the Present Distribution and Origin of the Calcareous Concretions in Coal Seams, Known as "Coal Balls" article{StopesOnTP, title={On the Present Distribution and Origin of the Calcareous Concretions in Coal Seams, Known as "Coal Balls"}, author={Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes and David Meredith Seares Watson}, journal={Philosophical ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coal balls floras from the Taiyuan Formation in north China have been mainly studied by Tian Baolin and collaborators, from the no. 7 coal seam in the Xishan coal field and have been summarised by Li et al., 1995, Tian et al., 1996. From these works quantitative studies have been undertaken, compiled from hundreds of coal balls (Wang et al., 1995).
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coal balls are original peat stages of the coal that were entombed by mineral matter, usually CaCO 3, generally very early in the postburial history of the peat body. They capture, in anatomical detail, the plant components of the original peat swamp, both aerial organs and roots (Phillips et al. 1976). And, although we may not be able to ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The evaluation of organic material in the coal balls was based on peel studies from 50 randomly selected coal balls from all areas of the crop. Each coal ball regardless of size was considered as one unit. From many of the coal balls numerous peels were obtained but only 2 peels oriented normally to each other were evaluated from each concretion.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The coalball plants were preserved in a sideritedolomite matrix and formed in a nonmarine intermontane setting. The coalball flora is dominated by arborescent lycopods and contains a few ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377cordaitean roots (2 coal balls, 4 polished thin sections); 3, decayed leaf mats in which individual leaves could still be discerned (2 coal balls, 3 polished thin sections); and 4, matrix rich peat consisting of peat matrix (organic particles with all dimensions ≤ 10 μm) roots and wood (1 coal ball, 1 polished thinsection; Fig. 3).
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