ABOUT THE SOURCE MATERIAL OF BARZAS COALS OF KUZBASS

Abstract

The source material nature of the Barzas coals of Kuzbass has been controversial for a long time. Some researchers consider that they are composed mainly of remains of higher plants, others believe that these coals consist of lower plants, and there is an opinion about a combined participation of both. The author, taking intoaccount the literature and his own coal petrographic data as well as isotopic and elementary analyses, believes that the first primitive higher plants served as the source material of slabby barzassites.