Introduction. Coal balls were best defined by Seward (1895, p. 85). "In the Coal Measures of England, especially in the neighbourhood of Halifax in Yorkshire, and in South Lancashire, the seams of coal occasionally contain calcareous nodules varying in size from a nut to a man's head, and consisting of about 70% of carbonate of calcium and magnesium, and 30% oxide of iron, sulphide of iron, etc.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377strip 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
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coalballs 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 ).
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377a nodule found in coal usually composed of calcite or silica and carbonaceous matter and having fragmentary or microscopic plant remains. See the full definition Menu Toggle
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coal 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377These coal balls contain a similar flora to those in situ in the seam and have been reworked and rounded soon after their formation as the overlying sediments have been deposited on top of both the coal and channel (R. H. Mapes and G. Rothwell, personal communication). Early work on coal balls relied on ground thinsections. The development of ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Specimens 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377All 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.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Definition 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 ). Formation
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coal balls are carbonate and pyrite concretions enclosing uncompressed peat, primarily found in Pennsylvanian and earliest Permian paleotropical coals.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Definition 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).
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377From 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coal balls represent early, peatstage mineralization somewhat analogous to concretions in shale (, Phillips et al., 1976). Although a nuisance for mining, coal balls from these two seams can preserve peatforming plant structures to the cellular level and have been very important in reconstructing Desmoinesian plant biology and ecology ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coal 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.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The pedogenic formation of coal balls by CO2 degassing through the rootlets of arborescent lycopsids. Coal balls are calcium carbonate accumulations that permineralized peat in paleotropical PermoCarboniferous (∼320250 Ma) mires. The formation of coal balls has been debated for over a century yet a..
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Definition. 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 ).
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377A 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Large 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The 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.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377ARTICLE A marine origin of coal balls in the Midland and Illinois basins, USA Michelle E. Chrpa 1,2, Anne Raymond 1, William M. Lamb 1 JuanCarlos Laya 1 Coal balls are carbonate concretions ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coal balls floras from the Taiyuan Formation in north China have been mainly studied by Tian Baolin and collaborators, from the no. 7 coal seam in the Xishan coal field and have been summarised by Li et al., 1995, Tian et al., 1996. From these works quantitative studies have been undertaken, compiled from hundreds of coal balls (Wang et al., 1995).
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