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Lithofacies and Palynostratigraphy of Some Cretaceous and Paleocene Rocks, Surghar and Salt Range Coal Fields, Northern Pakistan

By Peter D. Warwick, Shahid Javed, S. Tahir A. Mashhadi, Tariq Shakoor, Asrar M. Khan, and A. Latif Khan


Table 3 - Averaged selected analytical results from Surghar Range coal samples.


Characteristic or
composition
Surghar Range, Pakistan Upper Freeport coal bed
Eastern United States


N avg. s.d. N avg. s.d.

Coal bed thickness (m)   1.20     2.78  
Moisture (percent) 20 5.42 1.04 21 1.05 0.25
Ash yield (percent) 20 12.52 5.36 21 14.95 4.55
Volatile matter (percent) 20 41.21 3.38 21 25.34 2.44
Fixed carbon (percent) 20 40.84 3.06 21 58.66 3.14
Carbon (percent) 20 60.05 4.32 21 72.70 4.05
Hydrogen (percent) 20 5.25 0.29 21 4.50 0.27
Nitrogen (percent) 20 0.80 0.24 21 1.23 0.10
Total sulfur (percent) 20 4.98 0.89 21 2.06 0.75
Pyritic sulfur (percent) 9 1.65 1.17 21 1.42 0.74
Organic sulfur (percent) 9 2.83 0.45 21 0.56 0.10
Sulfate sulfur (percent) 9 0.35 0.26 21 1.42 0.74
Oxygen (percent) 20 16.38 2.84 21 4.58 0.62
Calorific value (Btu/lb) 20 11,034.00 761.00 21 12,861.00 751.00
Trace and minor-element data

Ag 4 0.05 0.01 19 0.05 0.04
As 4 5.88 2.44 21 24.00 17.38
B 4 77.26 18.70 21 13.50 6.30
Ba 4 16.44 5.61 20 47.91 18.96
Be 4 3.35 2.39 21 1.52 0.51
Br 4 6.36 5.96 21 9.17 3.03
Cd 4 0.38 0.15 21 0.18 0.21
Ce 4 11.00 9.40 21 25.90 15.25
Cl 1 150.00
Co 4 2.75 1.37 21 5.40 1.95
Cr 4 20.67 11.23 21 22.24 6.44
Cs 2 0.42 0.40 21 1.65 0.50
Cu 4 110.70 34.20 21 19.14 8.94
Eu 4 0.32 0.09 21 0.48 0.32
F 3 56.67 23.09 20 101.20 49.20
Ga 2 5.42 0.66 21 7.12 1.98
Ge 2 25.74 23.42 20 1.98 1.41
Hf 4 1.22 0.69 21 1.01 0.52
Hg 1 0.05   21 0.41 0.16
La 4 35.25 57.26 21 13.62 7.30
Li 4 160.00 31.60 21 20.94 9.65
Lu 3 0.09 0.02 21 0.18 0.11
Mn 4 104.00 77.00 21 22.76 9.13
Mo 2 20.55 5.13 20 1.89 0.69
Nb 2 6.85 1.80 21 2.25 1.50
Nd 4 10.24 4.91 13 12.58 6.37
Ni 4 9.92 5.00 21 14.41 7.13
Pb 4 69.00 40.10 21 0.81 1.22
Pr 1 1.08
Sb 4 0.33 0.20 21 0.81 1.22
Sc 4 3.15 0.93 21 4.65 1.91
Se 4 13.40 4.78 20 2.96 2.73
Sm 4 1.54 0.40 21 2.25 1.32
Sn 2 3.73 0.83 3 1.93 2.90
Sr 4 157.40 80.30 21 77.44 43.06
Ta 4 0.39 0.22
Tb 4 0.21 0.07 20 0.39 0.27
Th 4 3.18 1.27 7 4.57 1.92
U 4 4.60 6.10 21 1.73 0.74
V 4 25.70 18.50 21 22.31 6.57
W 4 0.60 0.20
Y 1 6.93   20 6.57 3.92
Yb 4 0.71 0.31 21 0.98 0.54
Zn 4 130.00 63.00 21 26.11 17.72
Zr 4 27.74 8.58 21 17.14 8.75
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