Coal. It powered the industrial revolution and fueled the early development of the science of geology. When the geologic time periods were being named, mainly in Great Britain, the time during which ...

The same geologic forces that stitched the supercontinent Pangea together also helped form the ancient coal beds that powered the Industrial Revolution, report researchers. The consolidation of the ...

Ever since the late 1990s, there's been one dominant theory for how Earth's enormous coal reserves were created: Coal is the fossilized carbon remains of plants that died hundreds of millions of years ...

FOR 60m years of Earth’s history, a period known to geologists as the Carboniferous, dead plants seemed unwilling to rot. When trees expired and fell to the ground, much of which was swampy in those ...

IN an article entitled “Base Exchange and the Formation of Coal” (NATURE, Sept. 24,. 1927) I discussed the probable influence of base exchange between the roofs of coal seams and sodium chloride ...

The consolidation of the ancient supercontinent Pangea 300 million years ago played a key role in the formation of the coal that powered the Industrial Revolution and that is still burned for energy ...