Coal

In the Urantia Book

Coal layers often hold both gas and oil. (59:5.16)

• The coal layers alternate with shale, stone, and conglomerate. 59:5.15
• In some parts of North America and Europe the coal-bearing strata are 18,000 feet in thickness. 59:5.15
• Coal is the water-preserved and pressure-modified remains of the rank vegetation growing in the bogs and on the swamp shores of this faraway age. 59:5.14-17

Deposition (60:2.7) (60:3.9) (61:2.3)

• in many regions the glacial deposit of local ice formations may be found even among some of the upper and later coal deposits. 59:6.6
• Carboniferous was the era of coal 59:5
• 200 millions years ago the really active stages of the Carboniferous period began. For twenty million years prior to this time the earlier coal deposits were being laid down 59:5.13

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