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How is coal formed?

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How is coal formed?
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Yogita Ingle 5 years, 11 months ago

  • The formation of coal takes millions of years, which is why it is an exhaustible and non-renewable natural resource.
  • It was formed around 300 million years ago when the earth was covered with swampy forests.
  • When plants in these forests- mainly trees, mosses, ferns, and reeds died, they fell into the swamps.
  • Thus there was a thick layer of dead vegetation in the swamp formed.
  • As years passed, more and more plants died and many such layers were formed, one above each other.
  • The topmost layers compressed the layers below. Heat and pressure caused some physical and chemical changes and eventually, some carbon-rich deposits were formed.
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