Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1754116 | International Journal of Coal Geology | 2008 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Due to the semianthracite rank, palynology could not be performed. Stratigraphic evidence indicates that the Lepidodendropsis flora would have been the dominant mire vegetation. Pteridosperms in this assemblage could have contributed resin rodlets, subsequently metamorphosed to collogelinite or secretinite. While a resin rodlet origin is an intriguing possibility for the origin of the rounded macerals (at least some of the rounded maceral, the rounded collotelinite clearly has a different origin), we cannot definitively prove this origin.
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Authors
James C. Hower, Jennifer M.K. O'Keefe, Cortland F. Eble,