Analysis of Coal Samples from the Upper Cumberland District, Kentucky (Parts of Bell, Harlan, Letcher, and Whitley Counties)

Authors

James C. Currens, University of KentuckyFollow
Linda Jean Bragg, US Geological Survey
James C. Hower, University of KentuckyFollow

Abstract

Chemical and petrographic data ore presented for 57 samples of cool collected in the Upper Cumberland District, eastern Kentucky. These data include sample-site locations, sampling conditions, stratigraphic position, megoscopic description of the cool, air-drying loss, proximate and ultimate analyses, Btu content, forms of sulfur, initial deformation temperature, softening temperature, fluid temperature, free-swelling index, concentration of major- and minor-oxides and trace elements, and petrographic analyses.

Publication Date

1987

Series

Series XI

Report Number

Information Circular 22

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13023/kgs.ic22.11

Funding Information

The field work, classification, and major- and minor-oxide and trace-element analyses were supported through grants from the USGS (U.S. Department of Interior, 14-08-0001-G 602 and 14-08-0001-A 0077). Funding for petrographic analyses was provided by the Kentucky Energy Cabinet.

Repository Citation

Currens, James C.; Bragg, Linda Jean; and Hower, James C., "Analysis of Coal Samples from the Upper Cumberland District, Kentucky (Parts of Bell, Harlan, Letcher, and Whitley Counties)" (1987). Information Circular--KGS. 40.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/kgs_ic/40