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Jon, >>Can you cite evidence for cyclothems forming today. Where? Where by processes occuring today do we see the development of coal beds or oil fields? The Gulf Coat of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and northern Florida is very similar to the environment that formed the Pennsylvaniian and Mesozoic caol fields in the United States. The coastal swamps of the Carolinas and Georgia are similar. Jon W. already mentioned the peat bogs fo the Brithish Islands. Oil occurs in Pliestocene sediments in the Gulf of Mexico, and shows charateristics consitant with formation less than 15,000 years ago. Jim