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Database of the United States Coal Pellet Collection of the U.S. Geological Survey Organic Petrology Laboratory

Open-File Report 2012-1151
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20121151

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Abstract

The Organic Petrology Laboratory (OPL) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Eastern Energy Resources Science Center in Reston, Virginia, contains several thousand processed coal sample materials that were loosely organized in laboratory drawers for the past several decades. The majority of these were prepared as 1-inch-diameter particulate coal pellets (more than 6,000 pellets; one sample usually was prepared as two pellets, although some samples were prepared in as many as four pellets), which were polished and used in reflected light petrographic studies. These samples represent the work of many scientists from the 1970s to the present, most notably Ron Stanton, who managed the OPL until 2001 (see Warwick and Ruppert, 2005, for a comprehensive bibliography of Ron Stanton's work). The purpose of the project described herein was to organize and catalog the U.S. part of the petrographic sample collection into a comprehensive database (available with this report as a Microsoft Excel file) and to compile and list published studies associated with the various sample sets. Through this work, the extent of the collection is publicly documented as a resource and sample library available to other scientists and researchers working in U.S. coal basins previously studied by organic petrologists affiliated with the USGS. Other researchers may obtain samples in the OPL collection on loan at the discretion of the USGS authors listed in this report and its associated Web page.

Suggested Citation

Deems, N.J., and Hackley, P.C., 2012, Database of the United States Coal Pellet Collection of the U.S. Geological Survey Organic Petrology Laboratory: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1151, iii, 18 p.; Coal Pellet Collection Database XLSX, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20121151.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Database of the United States Coal Pellet Collection of the U.S. Geological Survey Organic Petrology Laboratory
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2012-1151
DOI 10.3133/ofr20121151
Year Published 2012
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Eastern Energy Resources Science Center
Description iii, 18 p.; Coal Pellet Collection Database XLSX
Online Only (Y/N) Y
Additional Online Files (Y/N) Y
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