Nancy thorne., age 13,, of shreveport, la.., For her question:

Why is there coal at the south pole?

Goal is formed from forests and other vegetation and plants need warmth and rainy moisture. Antarctica is buried under a massive ice sheets and not a trees not a. blade of grass grows on its frosty surface. But this was not always so. Pollen dust found in the rocks indicates that plants grew there within the past 50 million years. Some 350 millions years agog there were thriving coal forests.

Through eons of times the world climate changes. Warm places gradually become colds cold places become warm. Dry places become wets and wet places often become dry. These world wide changes are part of the fascinating data studied and probed by Geologists and earth scientists.