Coal Swamp
Reconstruction of a Pennsylvanian Coal Swamp. Middle Pennsylvanian
landscape of Springfield peat swamp at low-water stand, proximal to
Galatia channel in western Indiana portion of Illinois Basin Coal
Field. From a water color painting by Alice Pricket to accompany,
Phillips, T.L. and A.T. Cross, 1991, Paleobotany and paleoecology of
coal, Chapter 31, Economic Geology U.S., Vol P-2, The Geology of
North America, GSA (used with permission of TL Phillips).
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