Describe how coal is formed from dead vegetation. What is this process called?

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Coal is formed by the bacterial action on dead vegetation. Over time, under high pressure and high temperature, dead plants got slowly converted to coal. Since coal mainly contains carbon this process of conversion is called carbonisation.

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