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How would you distinguish peat from mudstone with fossil plant fragments?
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Peat once dried becomes very easy to burn while mudstone once dries turns to a hard stone and is not flammable even with plant fragments in it.
Also peat tends to have layers to its formation while mudstone is very random in its formation.
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Peat would remain largely unconsolidated. Mudstone is a rock.
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What could you conclued if you found a fossil of a tripocal plant in a cold climate?
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