The ongoing process of becoming coal or converting into coal through heat and pressure.
Present participle of coalify, formed by adding -ing to the base verb. Maintains the same root as coalify but indicates an action in progress or habitual occurrence.
Right now, beneath swamps and forests around the world, coalification is slowly happening—but it works on a timescale so vast that the few millimeters forming per thousand years feels invisible to us.
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