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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

not even then. the conditions that turned vegetation in to coal no longer exist

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The process still exists, its just limited to rare environments, and will never be the scale as it once was.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

The thing is that back in Carboniferous, there were the first trees but no decomposers for that so the process still exists but there are other processes that make it much more unlikely