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Coal Swamp

Reconstruction of a Pennsylvanian Coal Swamp. Middle Pennsylvanian landscape of Springfield peat swamp at low-water stand, proximal to Galatia channel in western Indiana portion of Illinois Basin Coal Field. From a water color painting by Alice Pricket to accompany, Phillips, T.L. and A.T. Cross, 1991, Paleobotany and paleoecology of coal, Chapter 31, Economic Geology U.S., Vol P-2, The Geology of North America, GSA (used with permission of TL Phillips).

 

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