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 (81100%), dolomiteankerite (019%), minor quartz and illite, and trace amounts of ...
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
mens in Iowa coal balls has previously been noted by An drews Murdy ( 1958) and Darrah ( 1969), the present study represents the first detailed account orf such material. DESCRIPTION . One fragmentary weathered specimen (U. Ia. coal ball #801) was collected from gob piles near the Lost Creek Mine Office located five miles south of Oskaloosa ...
Coal Balls. Because coal balls are accumulations of (degrading) plant material (technically peat), they also are an excellent source of various forms of decaying organisms, including fungi. Numerous fungal remains have been found in coal balls, including hyphae, spores, and various types of reproductive structures.
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. ...
Coal balls can be appreciated only when they are examined under a microscope. Their value lies in the perfectly preserved cellforcell petrifaction of the original woody tissues. The cell walls are still there, as are spores still in the spore sacs of 275 millionyearold fruiting bodies. Preparation of these fossils is treated in Chapter X.
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.
Upon oxidization, most of the structures are lost. This is called "pyrite disease" in fossils and is characterized by a moldlike appearance on the cut surface of the coal ball. To prevent destruction, the surface can be coated with a sealant. Coal balls can also be stored in an lowoxygen medium like glycerin or antifreeze.
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 ...
Coal balls are carbonate concretions that preserve peat in cellular detail. Despite their importance to paleobotany, the salinity of coalball peat remains controversial. Pennsylvanian...
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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).
Coal balls occur in a narrow time interval of 24 in the Pennsylvanian and earliest Permian. • 33% of North American transgressiveregressive cycles in the study interval have coal balls. • In the Donets Basin, we estimate that 39% of TR cycles have coal balls. •
Coal and coal combustion byproducts are potential candidates for alternative resources of REEs (rare earth elements). The Illinois Basin is a major coalproducing district in the USA, but little work is available on speciation of REEs in the basin's coals. In this study, a total number of 382 samples from known locations in the Illinois Basin coal beds were acquired, analyzed for their REE ...
The 30 coalball specimens come from three southern Illinois mines in the Herrin Coal Member, Carbondale Formation, Kewanee Group, Middle Pennsylvanian (Westphalian D/Desmonesian) Series (Fig. 2, Fig. 3).Twentyfive specimens are from in situ paleobotanical profiles (Vertical Series or VS) established in earlier studies: 14 from VS 4 of Phillips and DiMichele (1981, their Figs. and ) at ...
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 ...
Large areas of concentrated coal balls (permineralized peat) up to 4 m thick obstructed longwall mining in the Herrin Coal at the Old Ben No. 24 mine. The largest coal‐ball area mapped contained >1500 m 3; several areas contained >400 m 3 of coal balls. In‐mine mapping established that there were two types of roof (freshwater and marine ...
From the perspective of Phanerozoic time, coal balls are rare, apparently limited to a 24 interval (323299 Ma) in the Pennsylvanian and earliest within this interval, coal balls occur in many coals. Approximately 82 transgressiveregressive sedimentary cycles have been described for the Midcontinent, Illinois and Appalachian basins of North America during the midtolate ...
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.
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 (81100%), dolomiteankerite (019%), minor quartz and illite, and trace amounts of ...
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Nature and occurrence of the coal balls. The faunal coal balls of GaruGensi area generally occur in the coal and carbonaceous shale of Bomte Member of Bichom Formation (Table 1).These concretions can be easily identified on surface by their subrounded to oval and occasional elliptical shape (Fig. 3a, b). The coal balls are very hard to break and are arranged along the bedding planes of ...
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 ...
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).
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