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What name describes the long-term geologic process that converts accumulated plant material (peat) into coal under heat and pressure?

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Coalification
Lithification
Metamorphism
Subduction

Correct answer: Coalification

Explanation: Coalification is the diagenetic transformation of peat into coal driven by burial and increasing temperature and pressure; it commonly requires millions of years and burial under hundreds of meters of sediment.

Created 2026-03-10T17:16:23.688Z. Updated 2026-03-10T17:16:23.688Z.