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coal is a sedimentary rock very high in carbonaceous content.
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What is an inorganic sediment for earth science?
coal or limestone. coal is made of once living organisms so it's organic. limestone is make from the shells of little organisms so it's also organic.
What is a sedimentary rock formed from decayed plant matter?
Bituminous coal is an organic sedimentary rock formed from the partially decayed remains of plants. Anthracite coal is considered metamorphic rock, and is derived from a bituminous coal protolith. Coal.
What part of speech is sediment?
Sediment is a noun.
What is the plural of sediment?
Sediments is the plural of sediment
What are rocks snd soil deposited by streams called?
they are deposited by sediment
Does coal represent sediment?
No coral is NOT sediment. Coral SAND is a sediment but the coral itself is a living organism - if buried and lithified, the coral becomes a fossil.
How does coal purify water?
Coal is used to take tiny sediment out of water making it cleaner, but not completely clean.
What are some words that rhyme and relate with sedimentary?
sediment , coal, and limmestone
Does Ohio grow coal?
Coal doesn't "grow" but rather developed over time as plants decayed and became covered in sediment. Ohio does have coal mines.
How is fine sediment filtered out of drinking water?
The water flows through a mixed media filter with layers of layers of gravel, sand, and charcoal or coal, which filter out fine sediment. The sediment is removed from the filter by backwashing, dewatered and disposed of in a landfill.
Is coal living plants in a swamp are covered with sediment and pressed eventually forming this valuable source of energy?
Yes.
What has the author M L Poe written?
M. L Poe has written: 'Surface coal mine sedimentation pond assessment' 'Are surface coal mine sediment ponds working?'
Over a long period of time the layers of sediment turn into?
It is sand. Edit: Over many thousands of years - sediment gets compressed and compacted into layers. The layers form rocks such as slate and coal.
What is an inorganic sediment for earth science?
coal or limestone. coal is made of once living organisms so it's organic. limestone is make from the shells of little organisms so it's also organic.
How is sedimentary rock formed into coal?
It isn't. Coal is the compressed remains of plants which lived in swamps and was later covered with sediment and buried under millions of tons of rock for millions of years until it became almost as hard as rock.
What is the difference between Coal and petrolium?
I assume you know coal is a solid and petroleum is a liquid. They were created in different ways. Coal was made from land based plant life, mainly ferns, that became submerged, such as being in flooded forests or swamps. Since they were under water these dead plants did not decay completely. Over time they were were covered by sediment. As they were buried deeper and deeper the temperature and the pressure of the sediment compressed it and turned it into coal. Oil was created by a similar process but it was made from sea life (plankton) that died and drifted to the bottom of a lake or sea.
How sun is ultimate source of energy source for coal?
We are pretty sure that coal formed from layers of plant matter accumulating at the bottom of a body of water, then being deeply buried under sediment and rock and eventually compressed and transformed by the heat and pressure into coal. The plants that eventually became coal derived their energy from the sun while they were living - just as plants do now - so the sun is the original source of the energy you get from coal.
