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    Coal forests were the vast swathes of swamps and riparian forests that covered much of the land on Earth's tropical regions during the late Carboniferous...
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    burial over millions of years. Vast deposits of coal originate in former wetlands called coal forests that covered much of the Earth's tropical land areas...
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    India proposed to mine the coal, which would have destroyed the forest. The Hasdeo river runs through the forest. The forest comes under the Korba, Surajpur...
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    In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Forest was a complex industrial region with deep coal mines, iron mines, iron and tinplate works, foundries...
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    mining. Coal fires are a serious health and safety hazard, affecting the environment by releasing toxic fumes; reigniting grass, brush, or forest fires;...
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    species of Lepidodendron grew as large-tree-like plants in wetland coal forest environments. They sometimes reached heights of 50 metres (160 feet)...
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    the vast coal forests that covered the equatorial region of Euramerica (Europe and North America). This event may have fragmented the forests into isolated...
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  • Mine. "Freemining in the Forest of Dean 2018". Welsh Coal Mines Forum. Retrieved 9 October 2020. "Monument Free Mine". Forest of Dean Local History Society...
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    Arthropleura was once thought to have lived mainly in coal forests. However, it probably lived a forest-independent life, as fossils of the trackway were...
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  • Thumbnail for Hambach Forest
    Only ten percent of Hambach Forest still remains, and the remaining forest is severely threatened by mining for brown coal. Of special interest is the...
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    Anthracite (redirect from Hard coal)
    are black coal, hard coal, stone coal, dark coal, coffee coal, blind coal (in Scotland), Kilkenny coal (in Ireland), crow coal or craw coal, and black...
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    nominated as one of Illinois' Seven Wonders. A two-story tall prehistoric coal forest is created, which displays local landscape, insects and amphibians as...
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  • Coal Creek State Forest is a state forest located in Montana. The forest has an area of approximately 20,000 acres and is one of the seven state forests...
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  • much of the carbon that became coal deposits (hence the name Carboniferous and the term "coal forest"). About 90% of all coal beds were deposited in the Carboniferous...
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    Bituminous coal, or black coal, is a type of coal containing a tar-like substance called bitumen or asphalt. Its coloration can be black or sometimes dark...
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    coal-fired power station or coal power plant is a thermal power station which burns coal to generate electricity. Worldwide there are over 2,400 coal-fired...
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  • Coal India Limited (CIL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Coal, Government of India. It is headquartered...
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    to mine specified areas, known as gales. The Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 exempted the Forest of Dean because of its unique form of ownership...
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    silk, lumber and coal industries, the population was close to 6,000—a booming town with a busy Main Street. The land that is Forest City and the surrounding...
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  • as Arch Coal, is an American coal mining and processing company. The company mines, processes, and markets bituminous and sub-bituminous coal with low...
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    plants (pteridophytes) began to spread across dry land, forming extensive coal forests which covered the continents. By the middle of the Devonian, several...
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  • Nadu and Rajasthan. The production of white coal (briquettes made of biomass) using agricultural and forest waste is more common in North India. Solid...
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    The coal tit or cole tit, (Periparus ater), is a small passerine bird in the tit family, Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder in forests...
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    Freeminer is an ancient title given to coal or iron miners in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, who have earned the right to mine personal...
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    Ardennes (redirect from Ardennes Forest)
    Ardennen [ɑʁˈdænən]), also known as the Ardennes Forest or Forest of Ardennes, is a region of extensive forests, rough terrain, rolling hills and ridges primarily...
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  • Thumbnail for Health and environmental impact of the coal industry
    environmental impact of the coal industry includes issues such as land use, waste management, water and air pollution, caused by the coal mining, processing and...
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  • Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 American biographical musical film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay written by Tom Rickman. It follows the story...
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    Coal phase-out is an environmental policy intended to stop burning coal in coal-fired power plants and elsewhere, and is part of fossil fuel phase-out...
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  • The Dark Forest (Chinese: 黑暗森林) is a 2008 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is the sequel to the Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body...
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    Coke (fuel) (redirect from Coke (coal))
    Coke is a grey, hard, and porous coal-based fuel with a high carbon content and few impurities, made by heating coal or oil in the absence of air—a destructive...
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