Preliminary field geotechnical and geophysical logs from a drill hole in the Capps coal field, Cook Inlet region, Alaska

Open-File Report 80-393
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Abstract

The drilling and logging activity described in this report was undertaken in August 1979, as part of the Energy Lands program of the U.S. Geological Survey. The general objectives of the project, of which this work is a part, are to provide an understanding of the nature, location, and extent of the engineering and environmental concerns in potential coal-development areas of the Cook Inlet region, Alaska. The geotechnical and geophysical logs presented in this report provide some of the basic physical-property and engineering data needed to evaluate geologic hazards, and to predict the response of geologic materials to large-scale coal mining and related development in the Capps coal field of the Beluga coal area. Specifically, the information may be used to help determine such things as natural- and cut-slope stability, spoil-pile stability, ground response to seismic activity, blasting effects, excavatability, bulking characteristics, ground-water conditions, and erosion potential.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Preliminary field geotechnical and geophysical logs from a drill hole in the Capps coal field, Cook Inlet region, Alaska
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 80-393
DOI 10.3133/ofr80393
Year Published 1980
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description Report: i, 17 p.; 6 Plates: 23.98 x 56.57 inches or smaller
Country United States
State Alaska
Other Geospatial Cook Inlet region
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