Why did the remains of plants get converted to coal and not petroleum?
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Fossil fuel is a general term for buried combustible geologic deposits of organic materials, formed from decayed plants and animals that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years.
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The large plant's remain got converted to Coal because when they decay they produce a large amount of carbon along with other products. This carbon condenses giving a large amount of coal.
Whereas, the small plants and animals gave Natural gas and petroleum, because natural gas mainly consists of Methane and a lesser amount of Carbon, and Petroleum was formed formed the dead remains of marine animals and small plants.
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