Jason C. Willett
Peter D. Warwick
S.J. Law
Douglas J. Nichols
Peter D. Warwick
Alexander K. Karlsen
Matthew D. Merrill
Brett J. Valentine
Paul C. Hackley
2011
<p><span>This review of the lignite resources of Arkansas is a part of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Coal Resource Assessment (NCRA) of the Gulf Coastal Plain Coal Province, which also includes coal-bearing areas in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky (see </span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="ch17r53">Ruppert et al., 2002</a><span>; </span><a class="link link-ref link-reveal xref-bibr" data-open="ch17r16">Dennen, 2009</a><span>; and other chapters of this publication). Lignite mining is not planned in Arkansas in the immediate future, and the lignite resources of the state were not assessed in detail as part of the NCRA. This chapter includes reviews of the geology of the lignite-bearing units, historical mining, previous investigations of lignite resources, and coal quality. Palynological data for lignite samples collected in Arkansas as part of this work are presented in Table </span><a class="link link-reveal link-table xref-fig" data-open="ch17tbl1">1</a><span>.</span></p>
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