Controls on the Distribution and Quality of Cretaceous Coals

Primary controls on total reserves, thickness, geometry, and distribution of coal seams: Upper Cretaceous Adaville Formation, southwestern Wyoming
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Published:January 01, 1992
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David T. Lawrence, 1992. "Primary controls on total reserves, thickness, geometry, and distribution of coal seams: Upper Cretaceous Adaville Formation, southwestern Wyoming", Controls on the Distribution and Quality of Cretaceous Coals, Peter J. McCabe, Judith Totman Parrish
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A comprehensive surface and subsurface study of the Upper Cretaceous Lazeart Sandstone Member of the Adaville Formation and the lower coal-bearing part of the Adaville Formation in the southwestern Wyoming thrust belt reveals a complex inter-tonguing of marine and nonmarine strata. During late Santonian and early Campanian time, the Lazeart wave-dominated deltaic system prograded southeastward onto a storm-influenced microtidal shelf. Sediments of the Lazeart Sandstone Member accumulated within storm-dominated lower shoreface, barred fair-weather upper shoreface, foreshore, washover, mouth bar, flood tidal delta, and tidal channel subenvironments. Landward of the strand line, sediments of the Adaville Formation were deposited within active...
- coal
- coal seams
- compaction
- Cretaceous
- deltaic environment
- distribution
- grain size
- Hilliard Shale
- isostasy
- lagoonal environment
- lithofacies
- Mesozoic
- organic residues
- paleogeography
- paludal environment
- progradation
- rates
- regression
- reserves
- resources
- sea-level changes
- sedimentary petrology
- sedimentary rocks
- Sevier orogenic belt
- storm environment
- stratigraphy
- subsidence
- terrestrial environment
- thickness
- transgression
- United States
- Upper Cretaceous
- Wyoming
- southwestern Wyoming
- Adaville Formation
- Lazeart Sandstone Member
- Hinshaw Member