COAL Flashcards
Coal
?C135H96O9NS
?Altered remains of lush vegetations
?5-350Ma
Maceral
?Carbonaceous materials evolved from Botanical Components of the Initial Vegetative Debris during Coalification
Humic Coals
?In situ formed
?Woody Plant Material
Sapropelic
?Transported or deposited from suspension
?Algae, Spores and Comminuted (pinaghiwahiwalay) na plant debris
Wetland
?An Area partially or Fully sumberhed in water most or all of the year
Water in Swamp must be
?Stagnant and Acidic
How do peat beds form?
?As plant materials dies, and fell to the bottom of the swamp, it partially decayed by bacteria forming thick peat beds which is buried by thousand of feet of sediments to be converted to Coal
Swamps
?Wetland in which dominant plants are woody trees
?Primary producer of peat that becomes Coal
Brackishwater
Intermediate Salinity between Freshwater and Seawater
Coal Depositional Environments
1) Back barrier
2) Delta Plain
3) Fluvial
Marshes
?Around, streams, or ocean where grasses and reeds are common. NO trees.
Bogs
wetland of enclosed depression filled by rain water
Mosses dominated
Acidic
Fens
Wetland fed by steady source of groundwater
Process of Converting Peat to Coal
Coalification
Coal Classification is based on?
Quality and Rank
In sequence Coal Ranks
Peat
Lignite
Subbit
Bit
Anthracite
Temp at which coalification starts at?
100 dec C
What volatiles are driven off during such process?
Oxygen, Hydrogen and Water
What happens to organic matter during coalification?
It becomes enriched in Fixed Carbon
Phases of Coal Formation
Peat Formation - Bacteria Decay
Phase 1: Aerobic Decay (w/ oxy)
Phase 2: Anaerobic Decay (w/ oxy)
Phase 3: Coalification @ 3K ft
Geological Phases of Coal Fomation
1) Microbial Stage
2) Biochemical Stage
3) Geochemical Stage
Macerals
2microns - several cm iin diameter
Non cyrstalline
Coal Petrography
Systematic, microscopic study and qauntification of the proportion and characteristics of coal constituents
Reflectance
The proportion of direct incident light that is reflected from a plane polished surface under specified conditions of illumination
Maceral Groups (very small individual components)
Origin
- Vitrinite
Wood
- Inertinite
Burnt, oxidized, degraded
2.1 Fusinite
Woody Tissues
2.1 Sclerotinite
Fungi
2.2 Micrinite
Polymerized Resin
- Liptinite
Spores, Cuticles and resins
3.1 Sporinite
Spores
3.2 Cutinite
Cuticle