Lignite oxidation under the influence of glacially derived groundwater: The pyropissite deposits of Zeitz-Weißenfels (Germany)

Evidence of fire in the Middle Devonian remains globally scarce. Charcoalified mesofossils recovered from the Emsian–Eifelian Trout Valley and St. Froid Lake formations of Maine are direct evidence of wildfires proximal to the Acadian Orogen, formed as the Avalon terrane and the North American plate collided. These mesofossils include charred psilophytes, lycopsids, prototaxodioids, enigmatic taxa such as Spongiophyton, and coprolites. Here, fire combusted a senesced and partially decayed litter, and the intimately associated nematophytes, following a period of extended dryness. We envisage wildfires occurred during neap tide when exposure of the flora of this estuarine setting was prolonged. Herein we provide a reconstruction of this Middle Devonian landscape and its flora in which lightning generated by post-dry season storms ignited wildfires that propagated through an extensive psilophyte-dominated litter.

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Lignite oxidation under the influence of glacially derived groundwater: The pyropissite deposits of Zeitz-Weißenfels (Germany)

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