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AN ASSESSMENT OF COAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT

CENTRAL APPALACHIAN REGION
by
M. Devereux Carter and Nancy K. Gardner

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-362


Figure 12. Estimated portion of each of the land-use restriction categories in each of the Matewan, Noble, Sylvester, and Vansant 7.5-minute quadrangle areas, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia. Land-use factors restrict only surface coal beds in the Matewan and Vansant quadrangles. In the Noble and Sylvester quadrangles, land-use restrictions affect both surface and deep-minable coal beds, and are shown separately on the diagrams.

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