This article addresses the fundamental difference between coal rank and coal type. While
theoretically settled long ago as being different aspects of coal systems science, the two …

Geologists and palaeontologists have expressed mixed views about the effects of the end-
Permian mass extinction on continental habitats and on terrestrial life. Current work …

Many mass extinctions of life in the sea and on land have been attributed to geologically
rapid heating, and in the case of the Permian–Triassic and others, driven by large igneous …

Wildfire has been implicated as a potential driver of deforestation and continental
biodiversity loss during the end-Permian extinction event (EPE;∼ 252 Ma). However, it …

The central aim of this chapter is to evaluate biochar effects from a plant-centered
perspective (Figure 14.1). Astonishingly little work has been done in this area so far …

Fossil charcoal has widely been accepted as a direct indicator for the occurrence of palaeo-
wildfires. In Upper Palaeozoic sediments of Euramerica and Cathaysia, records of these …

Despite a continuous increase in fossil charcoal records from Late Palaeozoic deposits,
which are used as direct evidence for palaeo-wildfires, detailed studies on the charcoal …

Palaeo-wildfire, which had an important impact on the end Permian terrestrial ecosystems,
became more intense in the latest Permian globally, evidenced by extensive occurrence of …

Abstract The North China Basin is the largest coal-bearing basin in China, and has an areal
extent of 800,000 km2. We analyzed 138 coal samples and in situ pillar coal samples of the …

This study provides a combined analysis on the palynology, fossil charcoal and biomarkers
of the subsurface coal deposits from a borehole RMB# 2 drilled at the Dhulia Coal Block …