About This Book
A practical field guide for beginner collectors describing plant fossils from Pennsylvanian (Coal Age) deposits in Illinois. It explains the swamp and sea cycles that produced coal beds, summarizes the common fossil plant groups, and illustrates specimen types with a time chart and identification key. Preservation modes such as concretions, molds, casts, petrifactions, and compressions are described. The guide also gives hands-on collecting advice — tools, packing, labeling, and courtesy when on private land — and points readers to further references for detailed paleobotanical identification.
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