Coal is a rock which is burned as fuel. It is called a ‘fossil fuel’ because it formed from the remain of trees and plants millions of years ago. Imprints of these plants can be found on some lumps of coal.
Coal is usually found in layers, called seams, of different thickness sandwiched between other rocks which formed at the same time. The oldest known coal seams are about 360 million years old .
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