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A major portion of global fossil fuel deposits originated during the Carboniferous period

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A major portion of the world's coal and hydrocarbon deposits indeed originated during the Carboniferous period due to extensive organic carbon burial and widespread forests.

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Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen.

2016 · cited by 107

Highlights the massive organic carbon burial during the mid-to-late Paleozoic that created modern atmospheric conditions and extensive fossil fuel precursors.

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The impact of fire on the Late Paleozoic Earth system.

2015 · cited by 19

Discusses the extensive coal-forming and peat-accumulating environments of the Late Paleozoic (Carboniferous) period.

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