Anyone have the relevant original paper lying around and would be willing to share?
quote:
Argonne National Laboratories in the US combined wood, water and acidic clay, and heated in a sealed container (with no added pressure) at 150 C for 28 days, and obtained high—grade black coal. R. Hayatsu, et al., Organic Geochemistry, 6:463471, 1984.
Can find paper behind paywall but again my local library can't touch it.
Thanks
JB
(Oh, and yes I know that the above description is not what I'll find in the paper -- that's a YEC description of what happened)