Alan M. Bailey

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of peat samples representing different depositional and vegetational settings were subjected to increasing temperatures and pressures in an open experimental system designed to simulate an approximate depth of burial of 1.5 km.

TL;DR: Petrographic changes during coalification of three peat samples were investigated by artificial coalification experiments using a semi-open reactor system as discussed by the authors, and the most distinct microscopic banding (longest and widest bands) developed in samples of the dome-formed peat facies, which had the highest framework to matrix ratios of any type and the greatest contents of surface litter composing the framework.

TL;DR: The National Electrostatics Corporation (NEC) 1.7 MV tandem Pelletron accelerator system with both SNICS and RF ion sources and a Varian CF-4 200 kV implanter was recently declared operational with the attainment of a 1.5μm×2.0μm beam spot size as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, laboratory simulations have been used to study diagenesis of several well-characterized peats, and approximately 80 g of peat were compressed and heated in a PTFE-lined reaction cell from atmospheric conditions to 2100 psi and 60°C, thus approximately simulating conditions necessary for the formation of lignite.

TL;DR: In this article, an artificially coalified Taxodium peat was used to examine the behavior of inorganic constituents in terrestrial organic matter during the early coalification process, and the results suggest that concentrations of silicon are lower in the newly produced solids than in the initial material.