Yes. I made mention of this in a reply to someone else as well. I’m not sure if my teacher (like 30 years ago) told us wrong or if I simply remembered it wrong.
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Dogyote@slrpnk.net 4 weeks agoDidn’t those trees become coal, not oil?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
DancingBear@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
I think near water they became oil and fat from water they became coal
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No, most coal comes from plants in swamps, because the water helped preserve the organic matter.
Plants in swamps die -> organic matter on the bottom of the swamp -> peat -> brown coal -> black coal.
Oil apparently comes mostly from plankton.
On the different origins: carboeurope.org/how-are-fossil-fuels-formed-the-s…
DancingBear@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Cool
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oil was effectively plankton and other sea stuff.
Coal was forests.
Child_of_the_bukkake@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
Brother I finally found you.
We come from the same place you and me. Remember that barn?