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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The provided papers discuss the Late Paleozoic (Carboniferous) as a period of significant organic carbon burial, extensive wildfires in peat-forming environments, and massive coal formation, which directly supports the geological consensus that major global fossil fuel deposits (especially coal) originated during this era.

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Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen.

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Lenton TM, Dahl TW, Daines SJ, Mills BJ, Ozaki K, Saltzman MR, Porada P. Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen.. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1604787113

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.

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Glasspool IJ, Scott AC, Waltham D, Pronina N, Shao L. The impact of fire on the Late Paleozoic Earth system.. 2015. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2015.00756

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

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