Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100407:18:11:00
Let's talk about how coal is made. this is a very bare bones description, but hundreds of millions of years ago there would be these primordial swamps and the trees would eventually die and they would fall under the water, the plants were buried under water and dirt. so there would be water and the seabed and dead plants and dinosaur bones and things like that. as oceans and continents shifted, the heat and the pressure turns those dead plants into this, into coal. by the way, it's the same pressure that creates oil. it's the same pressure if you really, really apply it that creates diamonds. ...