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Geologic Assessment of Coal in the Colorado Plateau: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah

January 1, 2000

This CD-ROM set contains a geologic assessment of coal deposits of the Colorado Plateau region and new resource estimates for selected assessment units within the Colorado Plateau. Original resource estimates (in-place resources before production) for the 12 priority assessment units of the Colorado Plateau exceed one half trillion short tons of coal in beds greater than 1 ft thick and under less than 6,000 ft of overburden. The coal is high quality and low sulfur, and a portion of these resources will provide future energy production for the Nation. Disc 1, in Portable Document Format, contains results of the assessment in summary and (or) technical reports for 12 priority coal assessment units in the Colorado Plateau and also contains an ArcView Data Publisher project, which is an interactive geographic information system of digital data collected during the assessment. Disc 2 contains stratigraphic data bases for seven of the priority coal assessment areas within the Colorado Plateau region and an ArcView project identical to the ArcView Data Publisher project on disc 1 except that it retains some of the functionality that is disabled in the ArcView Data Publisher program.

Publication Year 2000
Title Geologic Assessment of Coal in the Colorado Plateau: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah
DOI 10.3133/pp1625B
Authors Lauara N.R. Roberts, Laura Biewick
Publication Type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Series Title Professional Paper
Series Number 1625
Index ID pp1625B
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse