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This is a view looking down on a bedding surface in sandstone. The dark, elongate objects are concretions formed mainly of siderite (ferrous carbonate). They appear to have formed around roots in a palaeosol below a coal seam, and are termed rhizocretions. Some define originally horizontal roots parallel to the bedding surface; others represent shorter vertical roots. What does the presence of siderite indicate about the chemical environment in the sediment at the time the concretions were formed? |
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| image credit: Roger Suthren. Coal Measures, Upper Carboniferous, Amroth, S Wales | |
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