Okefenokee Swamp: a low-sulfur end-member of a shoreline-related depositional model for coastal plain coals

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6254675

Cohen, A D

The Okefenokee Swamp is proposed as one end-member of a shoreline-related model for coal deposition. Its peat would produce a coal seam that is relatively thick and continuous, with gaps occurring only where shoreline features are high. The seam would also tend to thicken along troughs roughly parallel to the orientation of the remnant shoreline features. The ash and sulfur contents of this coal would be low and inorganic splits in the seam would be rare. Thicker portions of the coal seam would tend to be massive (non-banded); whereas, thinner portions of the seam would consist of alternating bright and dull bands with greater amounts of fusinite, selerotinite, and corpocollinite. The other types of barrier-shoreline coal seams (the Snuggedy Swamp type and the salt marsh type) would be expected to display certain geometric and compositional similarities to the Okefenokee seam but would also display certain predictable differences in composition from it.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 6254675
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-83-1334; CONF-8209140-1; ON: DE83012677
• Resource Relation: Conference: International sedimentology congress, Calgary, Canada, 1 Sep 1982; Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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