coal bed formation

This is a remarkable item.It completely overturns our understanding of coal bed formation.

However we do have one tried and true stystem to pay attention to.  It is bog filling.  We are presently quite spoiled by huge flat fields.  That is all human produced.  Real world fields have an undulating surface with ample undrained catchments.  If we are a little short, the beaver will be happy to improve it all.


All this means that in the tropics in particular and in hte boreal forest we have continous production of moss to produce peat along with any trees it can capture.  Sooner or later  it all gets buried and coalified.  This is the big story.

There is a second story here.  It turns out that volcanic mud flows grab whole forests to dump into a water body.  The floating logs differentially sink and also naturally shed their bark which sinks soonest.  This lays out a potential thick bark layer as has happened in spirit lake by St Helens.  That also coalifies.

Now understand sometlhing.  the Global Flood  circa 12900 BP lifted and stripped trees almost everywhere and brought most of the debris back into the ocean.  This happens to legitimately be a testable claim.  Significant coal beds must exist and a lot of it will possibly be associated with continental crust.  Ideally such beds are otherwise not explainable.

It will be difficult but it represent a new tool for geologists to properly test for.  The key is discovering a bark origen and we should be able to do this.



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