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Crelling's Petrographic Atlas of Coals and Carbons

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TS37

ts37

Frame ID:TS37

The red material is vitrinite. The black features are inertinite and the two large black particles are fusinite/semifusinite. The yellow material is sporinite except for the two large yellow particles that are resinite and the textured yellow feature at the left is a sporangium (a sack of spores that was buried before it matured enough to break open and disperse the spores). (transmitted light, Harlan Seam, eastern Kentucky, width of field, left to right: ~350 µm)

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