Coal-Bearing Depositional Systems
ISBN: 9783642756689
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Subjects: Earth and Environmental Science;

The author presents examples of coal deposits two different continents: from the European Carboniferous and the Permian Gondwana sequence of Australia. The organic and petrographic composition of the coal content of palaeo-environmentally well defined groups of sediments allow the discrimination of two coal facies indices as suitable indicators for distinct settings. Combining the analytical methods of coal petrography, sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy an integrated view of coal formation is attained.


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