Coal-Bearing Depositional Systems

Coal-Bearing Depositional Systems

Author: Claus F.K. Diessel

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 728

ISBN-13: 3642756689

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The author presents examples of coal deposits two different continents: from the European Carboniferous and the Permian Gondwana sequence of Australia. The organic and petrographic composition of the coal content of palaeo-environmentally well defined groups of sediments allow the discrimination of two coal facies indices as suitable indicators for distinct settings. Combining the analytical methods of coal petrography, sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy an integrated view of coal formation is attained.