MINERAL AND ENERGY RESOURCES IN INDIA
MINERALS
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Coal-Oil-Nuclear
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Coal-Oil-Solar
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Oil-Coal-Gas
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none of above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of fossil fuels. Coal is a material usually found in sedimentary rock deposits where rock and dead plant and animal matter are piled up in layers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fossil energy sources, including oil, coal and natural gas, are non-renewable resources that formed when prehistoric plants and animals died and were gradually buried by layers of rock.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fossil fuels include coal, petroleum, natural gas, oil shales, bitumens, tar sands, and heavy oils. All contain carbon and were formed as a result of geologic processes acting on the remains of organic matter produced by photosynthesis, a process that began in the Archean Eon (4.0 billion to 2.5 billion years ago).
Detailed explanation-4: -The main fossil fuels are coal, natural gas, and crude oil. They occur in all three states of matter. Coal is in solid form, natural gas is a gas, and crude oil is in liquid state.
Detailed explanation-5: -Solid Fuels. Liquid Fuels. Gaseous Fuels. 29-Oct-2019