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Coal

Coal

Coal can be found throughout most of Ayrshire and in the Sanquar and Canonbie districts of Dumfriesshire. 300 million years ago these part of the earth's surface were occupied by tropical swampland. Over many years dying vegetation sunk beneath water level into oxygen-free conditions which ensured its survival. Trapped within this fossilised material was the energy which the plants had absorbed from the sun while they had formed a living part of the ancient forest.

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