Re: Polystrate trees, correction.

Glenn Morton (grmorton@psyberlink.net)
Tue, 28 Jan 1997 17:51:27 -0600

At 01:17 PM 1/28/97 -0800, Arthur V. Chadwick wrote:
>Art chadwick, the undying optimist wrote:
>
>In Australia there is a seam reported to be 750 meters thick....
>
>Uh, make that maybe 110 meters thick, maybe as much as twice that thick
>toward the eastern end. That is the Morwell brown coal (tertiary) near
>Victoria. Maybe I was thinking feet? According to a friend who has been
>there, the coal in places consists of moderately altered bark, etc. The
>coal is surface strip mined, and fed directly into the power station, or
>made into briquettes for sale on the retail market.

Thanks Art.

The eastern end of that seam would rival the one in Russia which is still
quite thick, requiring nearly 4000 feet of plant matter to be dumped onto it.

glenn

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