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.

Premise of research. Secondary phloem produced by a bifacial vascular cambium is the distinctive feature of lignophytes, the group that comprises the seed plants and the progymnosperms. Because ...

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 ...

Is the process that is at the origin of coal still existent, why or why not, and where does proof of it exist? Is it correct that today's fungi that attack the wood substance lignin did not exist in ...

Researchers have discovered that the mass extinction seen in plant species caused by the onset of a drier climate 307 million years ago led to extinctions of some groups of tetrapods, the first ...

Phytogeographic analysis of three Early Carboniferous intervals (Tournaisian-early Visean, Visean, and late Visean-early Namurian A) indicates a high level of phytogeographic differentiation in the ...

Fossil footprints are lovely vestiges of prehistoric life. Even though skeletons are wonderful things, and immense mounts of defleshed dinosaurs were what inspired my love of paleontology in the first ...

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.