Do you think that coal seams could develop in Antartica???
2007-01-21 10:51:09 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
yes, there are some proof
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,761884,00.html?promoid=googlep
2007-01-21 10:56:34 · answer #1 · answered by jamaica 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At present? No. coal seams have formed in the past from plants in swamplands. thousands of years of deposition of plants followed by millions of years of compression and burial have yielded the coal fields associated with the Carboniferous. Antarctica is frozen with no abundant plants and swamps so no coal fields for the future.
At one point in the Earth's history (Mesozoic, I believe) the land we know as the North Pole actually sat near the equator and had forests and wildlife associated with temperate climates, so it is not the land itself that can or cannot develop certain characteristics, it is where it is located that dictates the type of deposition possible.
2007-01-21 20:06:42 · answer #2 · answered by lynn y 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at present of course but they did in the past before Antarctica moved south and the climate of that continent was tropical . Polar explorers Scott and Shackleton were amongst the first people to notice coal seams in Antarctica.
2007-01-22 07:46:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋