Implications of coal-bed splitting for assessing coal resources
- Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States). Kentucky Geological Survey
Appalachian Basin coal beds are noted for their characteristic of splitting that arose from deposition of detritus between benches of mineable seams. The increase in thickness of this parting material commonly defines the limit of mining for such beds. The complex stratigraphic nature of coal zones with this property are difficult to characterize in a two-dimensional framework, and present serious challenges to determining and coding correlations for tabular databases. Delineation of split lines on coal-bed maps has two advantages in coal bed assessment. First, it imparts information that relates directly to mineability. More important, the resulting subdivisions of regional areas become more homogeneous with respect to thickness and quality variation and this reduces the amounts of data necessary for assessment.
- OSTI ID:
- 349231
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-980985-; ISBN 1-890977-15-2; TRN: IM9924%%232
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 15. annual international Pittsburgh coal conference, Pittsburgh, PA (United States), 14-18 Sep 1998; Other Information: PBD: 1998; Related Information: Is Part Of Fifteenth annual international Pittsburgh coal conference: Proceedings; PB: [1500] p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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