Cortland F. Eble

TL;DR: In this article, the Hernshaw-Fire Clay coal bed has been identified as a domed peat swamp, and the inferred paleoecology and vertical stratification of each of these four floral groupings is similar in structure to the “phasic” floral communities found in modern peat systems.

TL;DR: The Lower Freeport coal bed in west-central Pennsylvania is interpreted to have formed within a lacustrine-mire environment as discussed by the authors, and the coal bed facies are compositionally unique, having developed under varying conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, three sets of samples and vegetal and miospore data from the Upper Freeport coal bed, west-central Pennsylvania, show that detrital influence from a penecontemporaneous channel is limited to an area less than three km from the channel.