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A Carboniferous Coal Forest

A Carboniferous Coal Forest
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Description: In the Carboniferous, plants with lignin-reinforced tissues flourished, died, and became compacted into coal, a nonrenewable fossil fuel

It took millions of years of photosynthesis, burial, and compaction to form coal, which is why fossil fuels are said to be nonrenewable sources of energy

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