How does coal form?
Before the age of the dinosaurs, steamy swamps filled with giant trees & large leafy plants covered many parts of the earth. Pressure and Compacting between layers of sediments of the early vegetation that died and fell into shallow water begin the change as peat and then into bituminous, subituminous coal and finally to coal.
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