Feb 27, 2017. 1  Tonight, Casey Affleck took home the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Manchester by the Sea. While this might be a reason for celebration for the new Oscar-winner, not everyone was so eager to join in with the applause.
Bituminous coal is a sedimentary rock. Anthracite coal is considered a metamorphic rock.
The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure. Coal is composed primarily of carbon along with variable quantities of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Lignite, or brown coal, is the lowest rank of coal and used almost exclusively as fuel for electric power generation. 2  Jet, a compact form of lignite, is sometimes polished and has been used as an ornamental stone since the Upper Palaeolithic.