Abstract
The Upper Elkhorn No. 2 coal bed (Middle Pennsylvanian Breathitt Formation) in eastern Kentucky exhibits thickness and coal quality trends which suggest that peat deposition was contemporaneous with tectonism. The coal thickens and has high vitrinite and low ash and sulfur content the Belfry anticline in Pike Country. T in the vicinity of the Floyd Country channel, a basement trough. In both cases other Pennsylvanian coals exhibit similar trends, suggesting that the penecontemporaneous tectonism persisted at least through a portion of the Carboniferous.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 305-325 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | International Journal of Coal Geology |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 3-4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1991 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We wish to thank Gerald Thomas and his staff at the CAER for chemical analyses and Alan Bland and his staff at the CAER for ash geochemical analysis. This work was funded through U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-FG22-80-PC30223 and by grants from the Commonwealth of Kentucky through the Kentucky Energy Cabinet.
Funding
We wish to thank Gerald Thomas and his staff at the CAER for chemical analyses and Alan Bland and his staff at the CAER for ash geochemical analysis. This work was funded through U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-FG22-80-PC30223 and by grants from the Commonwealth of Kentucky through the Kentucky Energy Cabinet.
Funders | Funder number |
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COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY | |
Michigan State University-U.S. Department of Energy (MSU-DOE) Plant Research Laboratory | DE-FG22-80-PC30223 |
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Fuel Technology
- Geology
- Economic Geology
- Stratigraphy