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Coal formation linked to assembly of supercontinent Pangea

2016-01-23 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: The consolidation of the ancient supercontinent Pangea 300 million years ago played a key role in the formation of the coal that powered the Industrial Revolution and that is still burned for energy in many parts of the world today, Stanford scientists say. The findings, published in this week's issue of the journal for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, contradicts a popular hypothesis, first formally proposed in the 1990s, that attributes the formation of Carboniferous coal...

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