A sandstone slab from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia, approximately 355 million years old, discovered by two amateur paleontologists who co-authored the study, changes all this. It ...

Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous period saw a boost ...

Egdon Resources PLC spudded the Laughton-1 well in UK onshore license PEDL209 in Lincolnshire, UK, on Feb. 12. The well is targeting a structural trap at 1,500 m. According to ...

Devonian has subsequently identified Jurassic and deeper Permo-carboniferous sandstone seismic prospects.

The Gierałtowice prospect is on the Bielsko-Biała concession in Karpaty and is targeting 4 Bcf of mid-case recoverable gas in two target reservoirs - the Upper Carboniferous sandstone being the ...

The Qaidam basin is one of three main oil and gas basins in Northwestern China, but its Carboniferous, formerly thought as a part of the metamorphic base of the basin, is a frontier ...

Carboniferous Swamp Characteristic of the Carboniferous period (from about 360 million to 300 million years ago) were its dense and swampy forests, which gave rise to large deposits of peat. Over ...

These giant millipede-like creatures were the length of a car and likely roamed Earth during the Carboniferous Period, between 359 million and 299 million years ago.

The sandstone block is part of a larger structure that had already been dated to the early Carboniferous on the basis of radiometric and tectonic evidence.

The expansion of land plants led to the development of new river and floodplain morphologies. Field studies suggest that the expansion of tree habitats in the Carboniferous period caused the ...