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Crelling's Petrographic Atlas of Coals and Carbons

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Frame ID: TS29

The large irregular material in the center of the field is inertinite  Note the extreme deformation of the other macerals around it that indicates that the inertinite was rigid when it was incorporated into the peat that formed the coal. The red material here is vitrinite. All of the yellow features are sporinite. The few red ovoids are resinite also showing deformation of of the other macerals around it. around it. (transmitted light, Harlan Seam, eastern Kentucky, width of field, left to right: ~750 µm) 

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