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Origin: Student: Espinoza Castro, Franco Eduardo Code: 20102662G

Coal is a black sedimentary rock that is an important fuel. It is formed from plant matter that has been compressed and altered over millions of years. There are different types of coal deposits in Peru, including major periods of formation in the Mississippian to Carboniferous, Jurassic to Cretaceous transition, and Miocene periods. The most important coal deposits in Peru are located in the northwestern provinces in the West Cuvette basin between Lima and Cajamarca. Coal is used in the steel industry as a fuel and for producing coal briquettes. The largest coal producing countries are China, the United States, India, Australia, and South Africa.

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Origin: Student: Espinoza Castro, Franco Eduardo Code: 20102662G

Coal is a black sedimentary rock that is an important fuel. It is formed from plant matter that has been compressed and altered over millions of years. There are different types of coal deposits in Peru, including major periods of formation in the Mississippian to Carboniferous, Jurassic to Cretaceous transition, and Miocene periods. The most important coal deposits in Peru are located in the northwestern provinces in the West Cuvette basin between Lima and Cajamarca. Coal is used in the steel industry as a fuel and for producing coal briquettes. The largest coal producing countries are China, the United States, India, Australia, and South Africa.

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Coal

Student: Espinoza Castro, Franco


Eduardo
Code: 20102662G

It is a sedimentary rock black.


It is a fuel, and the organic sedimentary origin, composed mainly of
carbon, hydrogen and oxygen rock. It is formed from vegetation,
which has been consolidated between other rock strata and has been
altered by the combined effects of pressure and heat over millions of
years to finish forming the coalbed housed in sedimentary rocks.
Origin
Coal is caused by the decomposition of plant in continental basins
which in turn differ in paralic carbon and carbon limnic, the first is
intercalated with marine sediments and the second is intercalated
with clays, all plant debris deposited in continental basins such as
trees, seeds, plants, spores, etc. These added to a hot tropical climate
increases the amount of matter in the basins to suffer the loss of
water and oxygen fugacity mainly with the burial that giving ensnared
in the future to form coal. The metamorphic grade increases and%
carbon as peat, lignite, coal, anthracite and graphite this is the state
of charring, or sequences in the evolution to achieve better quality.

In Per
The three major periods of the formation of the coals are:
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Missisipiano - Lower Carboniferous


Jurassic to Cretaceous Transition
Miocene

North Western provinces


The most important economic deposits were deposited in the Cuvette
West North of Peru. The basin extends from the northern department
of Lima, to the south of the department of Cajamarca.
Deposits are usually productive series from 100 to over 200 m of
power with several parallel mantels and tens of kilometers long.
Located along the transition between training and Oyon Jurassic
Cretaceous Chimu.
Provinces of the Center of Peru
Goyllarisquizga deposits stand
Province Subandina
Cuvette corresponds to the East, which is almost unexplored coal. The
few mantles found are in the Formation and the group Cushabatay
East, belonging to the Chimu Formation of the West Cuvette.
Southwest Province
Coal outcrops in the few areas where volcanic cover was removed by
erosion. The coal seams are thinner in the North and are in the
Formation of the Yura Group Labra.
Uses
In the steel industry
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As fuel
For the production of coal briquettes

Coal-producing countries

China
2549 Mt
Estados Unidos de Amrica
981 Mt
India
452 Mt
Australia
323 Mt
Sudfrica
244 Mt

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