The geological process by which organic matter is transformed into carbon or coal through heat and pressure over millions of years.
From carbon plus -fication (the process of becoming something). A technical geological term.
Carbonification is still happening today—plants in swamps and ancient forests are slowly being buried and pressurized into coal and diamonds, a process that takes longer than the entire existence of human civilization.
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