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Crelling's Petrographic Atlas of Coals and Carbons

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TS17

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Frame ID: TS17

The large irregular material in the lower center of the field is fusinite/semifusinite.  Note the extreme deformation of the other macerals around the fusinite/semifusinite that indicates that the inertinite was rigid when it was incorporated into the peat that formed the coal. . (transmitted light, Harlan Seam, eastern Kentucky, width of field, left to right: ~350 µm)

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