University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paleoecology and Taphonomy of Middle Pennsylvanian-Age Coal-Swamp Plants: Herrin Coal-Ball Peat and Coal, Peabody Camp 11 Mine, Herrin Coal, Western Kentucky
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe objective of this research was to develop a method for analyzing the flora of Pennsylvanian-age coal swamps directly from etched polished surfaces of coal. Vegetation of two coal-ball profiles and four coal-column samples from the Herrin Coal Member (Kentucky No. 11), Carbondale Formation at Peabody Coal Company's Camp 11 mine in western Kentucky were compared. An estimated 89.5% of the coal can be anatomically identified. The estimated abundances of major plant groups (lycopods, ferns, and pteriodosperms) in coal-ball profiles and in coal differ by less than 10% after accounting for differential compaction of plant tissues. Standard deviations in taxonomic and maceral composition among coal columns are generally less than 2%.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Geology
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Winston, Richard Baury
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8701657
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71144