Coalballs are nodulelike rocks native to coal seams that contain mineralized plant organs or tissues (Zodrow et al., 1996), and are used for studies on coalforming plant species, structural morphology, and coalforming environments (Hilton et al., 2001, Wang et al., 2002, Zhou et al., 2004 ).
The pyrite coal balls occurrence modes in the C1 coal seam are likely the result of coalforming plants and Ferich siliceous solutions in neutral to weak alkaline conditions during late syngenetic stages or early epigenetic stages within paleomires. This appears to be the first report of pyritic coal balls in terrestrial coal seams in South China.
Definition. Coal balls are permineralized peat, mainly found in Upper of Europe and North America but also in some Chinese Permian coals. Coal balls are predominantly calcium carbonate which has precipitated in the cell lumina and spaces between the plants within a peat formed in a mire ( Scott and Rex, 1985 ).
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A 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. As such, despite not actually being made of coal, the coal ...
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Coal balls may be concretionary as there name implies, but more commonly are irregular masses complexly interfingering with the surrounding coal. Coal balls may be inches to many feet in diameter and height, so will commonly look like a limestone bed in a narrow core. Coal balls tend to be brown in color and the coalball limestone includes ...
Calamites. 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. They belong to a class of plants called sphenopsids.
some carbonate. No current model for the formation of coal balls completely explains their occurrence and rarity outside the Upper Carboniferous of Eurameria. 1. INTRODUCTION Coal balls are limestone concretions encountered in coal seams which represent peat (sensu Cohen Spackman I 977, I 980) that was permineralized by calcium and magnesium
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Coal balls are carbonate and pyrite concretions enclosing uncompressed peat, primarily found in Pennsylvanian and earliest Permian paleotropical coals.
DOI: / 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 ...
A 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.
The 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 ...
Coal 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 ...
Further, Taylor et al. (2011) have pointed out a bias in sample preparation, with thin sections of coal balls showing better preservation of fungal structures than acetate peels. That said, for example, while funginite was present in Pennsylvanian coals ( Richardson et al., 2012 ), it was not as diversified in the Pennsylvanian as in later coals.
strip pits of the Pittsburgh and Midway Coal Company near West Mineral, in southeastern Kansas. Investi gations of coal balls from this recently discovered rich locality are now being conducted in several American paleobotanical laboratories. Baxter (1951) recently published a report of this coal ball occurrence; Dele
All 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.
Coal 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 ...
One third (27/82) have coal balls, including 57% of major cycles, 36% of intermediate cycles and 16% of minor cycles. Coalball occurrence in the Donets Basin is similar: over an interval of about 4 (~315311 Ma, latest Bashkirian to midMoscovian), 39% (11/28) of transgressiveregressive cycles have coal balls. ...
perfect state of preservation. They are representative fragments of the millions of tons of forest debris that served as the raw material for coal. Our knowl edge of the origin of these fossils is by no mea:ns complete, but the essential steps in their formation seem clearat least in a general way.
A coal ball fresh from the seam is a rather undistinguished ob jecta rounded to irregularly shaped, dull brownrock crusted with coal. A casual examination of such a coal ball may not reveal that it contains a mass of tightly packed plant debris. It is certainly not obvious that some of the plant materials are intact organs and tissues with ...
Specimens occur in coal balls collected from the No. 7 coal seam of the Xishan Coal Field from the Xindao village (previously called Xiedao village), about km from Ximing in Shanxi Province, North China (Fig. 1).This seam is from the upper part of the Taiyuan Formation, which is considered to belong to the late Asselian or early Sakmarian stages of the Lower Permian (Pan et al. 1985; Tian ...
One third (27/82) have coal balls, including 57% of major cycles, 36% of intermediate cycles and 16% of minor cycles. Coalball occurrence in the Donets Basin is similar: over an interval of about 4 (~315311 Ma, latest Bashkirian to midMoscovian), 39% (11/28) of transgressiveregressive cycles have coal balls. ...
cordaitean 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).
The 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 ...
The Hill Top Colliery was opened in 1948. In 1948, the National Coal Board built two drifts leading downwards into the average m (4 feet 6 inches) thick Union coal seam. [3] Under the National Coal Board it employed from 1950 to 1965 on average 101 men underground and 9 above. [4] At its peak there worked about 200 miners.
Coal balls are carbonate concretions that preserve peat in cellular detail. Despite their importance to paleobotany, the salinity of coalball peat remains controversial. Pennsylvanian...
The 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.
areas where coal balls are more prominent to m where they are more lenticular, flattened, or absent. The coal is overlain by a massive sandstone, 3 to m thick, which, in the outcrop, extends beyond the coal. SOUTH The coal contains coal balls for a distance of about 18 m in a northsouth trend (fig. 1). The coal balls appear
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