Coal balls, pockets of plant debris that were preserved as fossils and not converted to coal, are sometimes found within the coal layers. Multiple transgressions and regressions of the Pennsylvanian seas across the continent can be seen in the rocks, and even counted, because they leave a telltale sequence of layers.
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Inconsistencies between the fossil record and lignin/fungalbased explanations for Paleozoic coal abundance extend more broadly than documented fossil specimens of fungal rots. Carboniferous peat permineralizations (coal balls) generally contain low shoot:root ratios, suggesting decay of massive amounts of aerial plant tissue (34, 44, 80).
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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.
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After it dries, pour some acetone over the surface and quickly lay a piece of acetate (plastic) over the ball. After it dries, peel the acetate off of the rock and you'll have a thin section of the fossils inside the coal ball. One coal can make hundreds of peels. I've attached a link with some pictures and more references.
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From the perspective of Phanerozoic time, coal balls are rare, apparently limited to a 24 interval (323299 Ma) in the Pennsylvanian and earliest within this interval, coal balls occur in many coals. Approximately 82 transgressiveregressive sedimentary cycles have been described for the Midcontinent, Illinois and Appalachian basins of North America during the midtolate ...
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Belgian coalballs. Doctor Roy Graham" made certain modifications in order to adapt it to Illinois coalballs. Other investigators4 have used Graham's procedure for calcified animal remains. By this method successive films of nitrocellulose are peeled from a smoothed surface of a petrifaction. The fossil must first be attacked by an acid in ...
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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 ...
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The Mazon Creek region in Illinois, famous for its fernfossil concretions, is currently producing a number of coal balls. They are partly pyritized. Many mines produce such pyritized coal balls; they are useless for research as they cannot be properly "peeled" or sectioned. Coal balls can be appreciated only when they are examined under a ...
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Coal balls are calcareous peats with cellular permineralization invaluable for understanding the anatomy of Pennsylvanian and Permian fossil plants. Two distinct kinds of coal balls are here recognized in both Holocene and Pennsylvanian calcareous calcite coal balls have arrays of calcite δ 18 O and δ 13 C like those of desert soil calcic horizons reflecting isotopic ...
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The pyritic coal balls occurrence modes in the C1 coal seam are likely the result of coalforming plants and FeMgrich siliceous solutions in neutral to weak alkaline conditions during late syngenetic stages or early epigenetic stages within paleomires. ... Plant fossils are replaced by coal tar pitch and pyrite, and the preservation is ...
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A modification of this technique was published in 1956 [Joy et al. ; see also Galtier and Phillips ] that affected how coalball plants were studied and, at the same time, may have decreased the number of discoveries of fossil fungi in coal balls. In this modification, preformed sheets of cellulose acetate were used to make peels.
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Coal balls are carbonate and pyrite concretions enclosing uncompressed peat, primarily found in Pennsylvanian and earliest Permian paleotropical coals. ... Excellent preservation of plant fossils in coal balls is not necessarily correlated with the presence of original cement. New data on the formation of carboniferous coal balls. 1996, Review ...
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A description of sources of coal balls from around the world, and how they may be prepared for microscopic observation of contained fossils. Features Dr. To...
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The coal balls are very hard to break and are arranged along the bedding planes of the coaly shale (Fig. 3 a). These coal balls have yielded well preserved marine fossils viz. brachiopods, bivalves, gastropods, etc. (Singh 1978a, b, c, d; Prakash et al. 1988).
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TVA met its goal of retiring the Bull Run Fossil Plant by Dec. 1, 2023, and said the plant "finished strong" with a 48day continuous run to burn its last remaining coal. Its recent summer net capability was 765 megawatts, enough to power 440,000 homes at once. As operations finished, TVA said the plant's 60 employees were all given their first ...
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These coal balls contain a similar flora to those in situ in the seam and have been reworked and rounded soon after their formation as the overlying sediments have been deposited on top of both the coal and channel (R. H. Mapes and G. Rothwell, personal communication). Early work on coal balls relied on ground thinsections. The development of ...
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etc.; and (c) faunal coal balls, containing only these marine invertebrate animals (Mamay and Yochelson 1962). There are reports of concretions from Indian coalelds (Ghosh 1971; Chandra et al. 1971), though faunal coal balls with nuclei of animal fossil are only reported from the Bichom Formation of Lower Gondwana Group of rocks from Garu
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Phillips Coal Ball Collection. Coal balls are petrified pockets of plant debris that were preserved 280 million to 325 million years ago during the Upper Carboniferous Period, sometimes called the Great Coal Age. Plants immortalized in these coal balls are preserved at the cellular level, details not preserved in other types of fossils. Their ...
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full importance of a most unique source of fossil plant materialpetrifactions that we refer to as " coal balls ". Although many of the plants that have been found in coal balls are now commonly encountered even in elementary textbooks, a firsthand knowledge of the occurrence and nature of the petrifactions is still shared by
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This month's fossil is one of the most common fossils in the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field. It is the fossil horsetail rush, Calamites. Description. Calamites is a fossil "horsetail" or "scouring" rush. Rushes are reedlike plants with jointed stems. ... In coal balls where Calamites plant parts are permineralized (original structures ...
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