Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous period saw a boost in atmospheric oxygen and vast quantities of carbon dioxide trapped in what ...

Coal. It powered the industrial revolution and fueled the early development of the science of geology. When the geologic time periods were being named, mainly in Great Britain, the time during which ...

This time period took place 359 to 299 million years ago. 3 min read The Carboniferous period, part of the late Paleozoic era, takes its name from large underground coal deposits that date to it.

Could you make it in the swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period? The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects, but it’s time for the amniotes - the ancestors of all reptiles, ...

The establishment of terrestrial plants during the Palaeozoic era was one of the most significant changes to the Earth system during the Phanerozoic eon. The continuing evolution and expansion of land ...

Micropaleontology, Vol. 48, Supplement 1: Micropaleontology of Radiolarians: Proceedings of INTERRAD 9 (2002), pp. 129-143 (15 pages) Lower Carboniferous radiolarian fauna is described from a ...

This study was led by Dr. Daofu SONG (State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum, Beijing) and his team. They collected cutinite-rich coals from the ...

The Qaidam basin is one of three main oil and gas basins in Northwestern China, but its Carboniferous, formerly thought as a part of the metamorphic base of the basin, is a frontier formation without ...