Coal ball: Difference between revisions

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Coal balls in North America were first found in [[Iowa]] coal seams in 1894,{{sfn|Darrah|Lyons|1995|p=176}}{{sfn|Andrews|1946|p=334}} although the connection to European coal balls was not made until [[Adolf Carl Noé]] (whose coal ball was found by Gilbert Cady{{sfn|Darrah|Lyons|1995|p=176}}{{sfn|Leighton|Peppers|2011}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Memorial to Gilbert Haven Cady |url=https://rock.geosociety.org/net/documents/gsa/memorials/v03/Cady-GH.pdf |website=Geological Society of America |publisher=Geological Society of America |access-date=23 April 2024}}</ref>) drew the parallel in 1922.{{sfn|Noé|1923a|p=385}} Noé's work renewed interest in coal balls, and by the 1930s had drawn paleobotanists from Europe to the [[Illinois Basin]] in search of them.{{sfn|Phillips|Pfefferkorn|Peppers|1973|p=24}}

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* {{cite journal | title = Coal Balls&nbsp;– A Key to the Past | journal = [[The Scientific Monthly]] | date = April 1946 | first = Henry N. | last = Andrews | volume = 62 | issue = 4 | pages = 327–334| id = | jstor = 18958|ref=harv |bibcode = 1946SciMo..62..327A }}

* {{cite journal | title = Coal Balls: New Discoveries in Plant Petrifactions from Kansas Coal Beds | journal = [[Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science]] | date = December 1951 | first = Robert W. | last = Baxter | volume = 54 | issue = 4 | pages = 526–535| id = | jstor = 3626215|ref=harv | doi=10.2307/3626215}}

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