Re: Coal

Gene Dunbar Godbold (gdg4n@avery.med.virginia.edu)
Sat, 18 Jan 1997 12:56:50 -0500 (EST)

I was waiting for Glenn to get into this. In his book he has a
calculation using all the oil deposits, all the fossils, and all the
minerals that used to be living organisms. The amount is truly
staggering. The world would have been covered with forests (even the cold
parts) and the oceans would have been pea soup with plankton (supposing
they could have survived that dense, which is extremely doubtful). The
forests would have been chock full of animals and even then you'd be
short. I don't have the book with me right now, but it was pretty
interesting.

Gene