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Coal deposits were formed largely from swamp plants, trees, club mosses, and ferns, that inhabited the Permian landscape 300 million years ago (quite some time before the dinosaurs). There were no grasses or flowering plants back then.

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Coal was formed from the remains of plants and animals under high pressure. The sediment on top of the remains provides the pressure to convert peat into coal.

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Dead rotting plantlife and animals

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When coal is burned is matter transformed increased decreased or destroyed?

is it transformed?


Is coal made out of crude oil?

No. Coal is made from fossilised organisms and vegetation. Crude oil is mostly found underground, and can be seperated into different hydrocarbons, such as petrol and kerosine.


How is coal transformed into energy?

Usually it is burned.


What can happen over millions of years to the carbon compuonds in organisms that die and decompose?

Generally carbon compounds are completely destroyed by chemical degradation, microorganisms, insects etc. In some conditions of pressure, temperature, lack of oxygen organic wastes were transformed in oil, coal, methane.


What are fossial fuels?

A fossil fuel is a natural fuel such as gas or coal. It is formed from living organisms remains.


What fossil fuel Oil?

a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.


What type of fuel forms from the dead organisms acted on by temperature and pressure of the earth?

Coal and oil products .


How do you get oil on doodle god?

Use water and coal. :D


What rock is formed when coal is transformed to metamorphic rock?

shale


Is there oil in coal?

Coal oil is only found in cannel coal and bituminous shale coal.


What material is formed from the decay of ancient organisms and is used today as a source of energy?

Fossil fuels like coal and oil.


Is coal formed from the buried remains of marine organisms?

No, it is formed when forests die and are covered with layers of rock which compress it and over time turns it into coal. Buried remains of marine organisms formed oil, following mass extinctions,where the oceans have stagnated.