Describe how coal is formed from dead vegetation.What is/this process called?
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When the giant plants and ferns died, they formed layers at the bottom of the swamps.
Water and dirt began to pile up on top of the dead plant remains. Over thousands of years pressure and heat would build up on top of the plant remains, undergoing chemical and physical changes and pushing out the oxygen, turning these remains into what we call coal.
Water and dirt began to pile up on top of the dead plant remains. Over thousands of years pressure and heat would build up on top of the plant remains, undergoing chemical and physical changes and pushing out the oxygen, turning these remains into what we call coal.
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About 300 million years ago the earth had dense forest in low lying wetland areas.
Due to various natural processes, like flooding and earthquakes, these forests got buried under the soil.
The soil eposits layer by layer over them, they were compressed.
Under high temperature and pressure the plants got converted to coal slowly.
This process is called carbonisation.
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