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Use of surface joint and photolinear data for predicting subsurface coal cleat orientation. Report of investigations

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7341963
Coalbeds exhibit a directional permeability, with the maximum permeability oriented parallel to the dominant fracture, the face cleat. Thus, the most efficient pattern of vertical degasification holes for a coalbed is dependent upon cleat orientation. Surface joints, infrared photolinears and Ronchi grating photolinears were investigated as potential estimators of subsurface cleat orientation in areas of virgin coal. Cleat orientations were measured in 18 mines in the Pittsburgh coal in southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia to be used as a standard against which prediction techniques would be evaluated. (GRA)
Research Organization:
Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa. (USA). Pittsburgh Mining and Safety Research Center
OSTI ID:
7341963
Report Number(s):
PB-252319; BM-RI-8120
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English