HSEA 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Supercontinent, Lignin, Paleozoic
28 Jul 2020
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In the carboniferous period, an enormous quantity of mineral coal was produced. The penultimate rung of the paleozoic era (started approximately 542 million years ago and ended about 298 million years ago) is known as the carboniferous period or simply carboniferous period on the geological time scale. In other words, it is the fifth period of the paleozoic era, preceded by the devonian and succeeded by the permian. The carboniferous begins about 359 million years ago and culminates approximately 299 million years ago. It is the longest period of the paleozoic era and one of the most tectonically active in. The british geologists william conybeare and william phillips gave its name, which comes from the. Latin words carb ( coal ) and fer ( carrier ), in 1822. It is because in this period an enormous amount of coal was produced mineral in the world.
