History's Most Powerful Plants
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Fossil fuels are made from the remains of extinct organisms that have been exposed to millions of years of heat and pressure. But in the case of coal, these organisms consisted largely of some downright bizarre plants that once covered the Earth, from Colorado to China.
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References:
http://www.devoniantimes.org/who/pages/lycopsid.html
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200447/BibliographicResource_3000095543293.html
Taylor, Edith L; Krings, Michael; Taylor, Thomas N, Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants, Academic Press, 2nd Ed, 2008
http://science.jrank.org/pages/1531/Club-Mosses.html
http://palaeos.com/plants/lycopodiophyta/lepidodendrales.html
http://feedthedatamonster.com/home/2014/7/11/how-fungi-saved-the-world
http://palaeos.com/plants/lycopodiophyta/lepidodendrales.html
https://sites.google.com/site/paleoplant/home-1/embryophytes/polysporangiophytes/rhyniophytes/eutracheophyte/lycophytes/club-mosses/lepidodendrales
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jonathan_Wilson13/publication/309439742_Climate_pCO2_and_terrestrial_carbon_cycle_linkages_during_late_Palaeozoic_glacial-interglacial_cycles/links/5811fa2508ae9b32b0a37ac2.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1755-6724.13061/full
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Dimichele/publication/284104574_Arborescent_lycopsid_productivity_and_lifespan_Constraining_the_possibilities/links/571e604108aed056fa226d68/Arborescent-lycopsid-productivity-and-lifespan-Constraining-the-possibilities.pdf
http://www.geologyatsheffield.co.uk/sagt/morphology/
https://books.google.com/books?id=wbZGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=lepidodendron+fast+growing&source=bl&ots=3gdQ9ChJ3P&sig=8Zio7mUdoBqj7tHbY8m3ulzis_s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiy1YmA0pTVAhXr6oMKHdrvAEMQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=lepidodendron%20fast%20growing&f=false
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/07/the-fantastically-strange-origin-of-most-coal-on-earth/
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/7416/paleo_2005_DiMichele_et_al_PCAS_56%28Suppl_I%29_HR.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
http://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/article/view/1583
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1755-6724.13061/full
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/S_Naugolnykh/publication/261171288_Fossil_flora_from_the_Aleksandrovskoe_locality_Lower_Permian_Kungurian_Krasnoufimsk_district_of_the_Sverdlovsk_Region_Taxonomical_composition_taphonomy_and_a_new_lycopsid_representative/links/0a85e5335cb34e4b6f000000.pdf
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References:
http://www.devoniantimes.org/who/pages/lycopsid.html
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200447/BibliographicResource_3000095543293.html
Taylor, Edith L; Krings, Michael; Taylor, Thomas N, Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants, Academic Press, 2nd Ed, 2008
http://science.jrank.org/pages/1531/Club-Mosses.html
http://palaeos.com/plants/lycopodiophyta/lepidodendrales.html
http://feedthedatamonster.com/home/2014/7/11/how-fungi-saved-the-world
http://palaeos.com/plants/lycopodiophyta/lepidodendrales.html
https://sites.google.com/site/paleoplant/home-1/embryophytes/polysporangiophytes/rhyniophytes/eutracheophyte/lycophytes/club-mosses/lepidodendrales
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jonathan_Wilson13/publication/309439742_Climate_pCO2_and_terrestrial_carbon_cycle_linkages_during_late_Palaeozoic_glacial-interglacial_cycles/links/5811fa2508ae9b32b0a37ac2.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1755-6724.13061/full
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Dimichele/publication/284104574_Arborescent_lycopsid_productivity_and_lifespan_Constraining_the_possibilities/links/571e604108aed056fa226d68/Arborescent-lycopsid-productivity-and-lifespan-Constraining-the-possibilities.pdf
http://www.geologyatsheffield.co.uk/sagt/morphology/
https://books.google.com/books?id=wbZGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=lepidodendron+fast+growing&source=bl&ots=3gdQ9ChJ3P&sig=8Zio7mUdoBqj7tHbY8m3ulzis_s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiy1YmA0pTVAhXr6oMKHdrvAEMQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=lepidodendron%20fast%20growing&f=false
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/07/the-fantastically-strange-origin-of-most-coal-on-earth/
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/7416/paleo_2005_DiMichele_et_al_PCAS_56%28Suppl_I%29_HR.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
http://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/article/view/1583
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1755-6724.13061/full
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/S_Naugolnykh/publication/261171288_Fossil_flora_from_the_Aleksandrovskoe_locality_Lower_Permian_Kungurian_Krasnoufimsk_district_of_the_Sverdlovsk_Region_Taxonomical_composition_taphonomy_and_a_new_lycopsid_representative/links/0a85e5335cb34e4b6f000000.pdf
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