Geologic Assessment of Coal in the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain, U.S.A.

Coal and Related Carbon Resources / Exploration, Production, Coal Ash, & Rare Earths

Date posted: 03/01/15

Peter Warwick and the USGS report on the recently released Geologic Assessment of Coal in the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain, USA. This is the fifth in a series of reports by the U.S. Geological Survey on the assessment of the quantity and quality of the national coal deposits that potentially can be mined during the next few decades. For eight years - 1995 - 2003, geologic, geochemical, and resource information was collected and compiled for the five major coal-producing regions of the United States: the Appalachian Basin, Illinois Basin, Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains, Colorado Plateau, and the western part of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain - Gulf Coast- region. This volume contains the assessment results for the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain region. Every effort has been made to update the references and text to incorporate new work that has been completed since the original compilation period. The GIS files that accompany this project, and which are included on the CD-ROM, also are available free to the public as a download - GIS files require ArcGIS software.