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Kenneth John Englund

Publications and source records attributed to Kenneth John Englund.

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USGS1991

Coal resources of Tazewell County, Virginia, 1980

Economically important coal beds of Pennsylvanian age underlie about 96 square miles in the northwestern part of Tazewell County in the southwestern Virginia coal field. Coal in Tazewell County ranges in rank from low-volatile to high-volatile A bituminous and generally increases in rank with depth. On an as-received basis, most of the coal is relatively low in ash and high in heat value. Analyses of trace element and major and minor oxide composition of 22 coal beds in Tazewell County indicate that none of the samples contain significant amounts of either potentially toxic or economically valuable trace elements. Of 60 coal beds in Tazewell County, 37 beds are of sufficient thickness and extent to merit calculation of resources.

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USGS1977

Mineral resource appraisal of the New River Gorge, Fayette, Raleigh, and Summers counties, West Virginia

The New River Gorge study area contains 440 square kilometers of a strikingly scenic part of the Appalachian coal field of southcentral West Virginia in Fayette, Raleigh, and Summers Counties. Coal resources of 66 million tons occur in 12 coal beds in the area of the proposed Wild and Scenic River, and coal resources of 151 million tons are present in 13 coal beds in the larger area of the proposed National Park. Coal is produced at one underground mine and several strip mines in or near the study area. The entire New River Gorge area has a potential for natural gas resources, but gas is being currently produced only in the northern part. Oil, however, is unlikely to be found within or near the study area. The extensive resources of sandstone for construction and high-silica rock and shale for common brick are not considered to be economically important in the Gorge area. Resources of other nonmetallic materials including limestone and fire clay are small or nonexistent. Resources of metallic minerals are not known in the study area.

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USGS1977

Slope angle distribution of coal beds with strippable reserves

Slope angles were determined in representative strip mining areas of Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming by personnel of the U.S. Geological Survey to provide the Strip Mining Task Force, assembled by the Council of Environmental Quality, with data relating to the slope angle distribution of coal beds with strippable reserves. For the purpose of this study, slope determinations were made for 22 counties (table 1), selected by the Strip Mining Task Force, for coal beds known to contain strippable reserves as reported by Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8531, "Strippable Reserves of Bituminous Coal and Lignite in the United States." Available geologic maps that delineated coal bed outcrop lines on a topographic base were utilized for most slope angle determinations and coal resource reports provided additional data concerning the areas likely to contain recoverable coal reserves in the selected beds. The angles of slopes along which these coal beds occur were determined by measuring the spacing of topographic contour lines and were assigned to the appropriate slope categories selected for this purpose by the Strip Mining Task Force as follows: (A) 0-10°, (B) 10°-15°, (C) 15°-20°, (D) 20°-25°, and (E) 25°+. The overall sampling technique and measurement procedure are described in the following section and modification to this approach, necessitated by the availability and distribution of data, are described for each county. A list of source material used in compiling slope angles, slope distribution tables, and histograms are also included for each county.

Open-File Report↗
USGS1976

Descriptions of core from three U.S. Geological Survey core holes in Carboniferous rocks of West Virginia

This open-file report contains descriptive stratigraphic data from three core holes that were drilled for the Pennsylvanian System Stratotype Project of the U.S. Geological Survey (Englund, K. J., and others, 1974) in the spring of 1975 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. These holes were drilled to obtain information needed to study critical stratigraphic relationships that could not be determined from surface geologic work alone. The planned location and projected depth of each of the three core holes was based on the need to either establish, or confirm, stratigraphic correlations within the Pennsylvanian System, between the Pennsylvanian and Mississippian Systems, and between the Pennsylvanian and Permian Systems in West Virginia, Locations of the core holes are shown in figures 1, 3, 4 and 5, and the stratigraphic intervals penetrated are shown in figure 2,

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USGS1974

Availability of low-sulphur coal in McDowell County, West Virginia

Lower and Middle Pennsylvanian coal-bearing strata of the Pocahontas, New River, and Kanawha Formations crop out in McDowell County in the southernmost part of the West Virginia coal field. The stratigraphic relations and distribution of coal beds in these formations were studied by the U.S. Geological Survey to contribute to a program of the U.S. Bureau of Mines concerning the availability of low-sulfur coal in the Appalachian region. Coal of low-volatile, medium-volatile, and high-volatile A bituminous rank occurs in 69 beds that range in thickness from a few inches to a maximum of nearly 9 feet. Recoverable reserves in beds 28 inches or more in thickness are present principally in 15 coal beds, each of which has been mined by underground or stripping methods. Published analyses of 160 samples collected in the county indicate that 11 of the principal coal beds average 1 percent or less in sulfur content and, of these, only 4 beds contain more than 1 percent sulfur locally. The other 4 principal coal beds are low to medium in sulfur on the basis of samples that were collected during early mining or are from adjacent counties.

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USGS1972

Availability of low-sulphur coal in Mercer County, West Virginia

The Lower Pennsylvanian Pocahontas and New River Formations underlie the West Virginia coal field in the northwestern one-fifth of Mercer County, W. Va. The stratigraphic relations and distribution of coal in these formations were studied by the U.S. Geological Survey for the U.S. Bureau of Mines program concerned with the availability of low-sulfur coal in the Appalachian region. Coal in Mercer County occurs in 30 beds ranging from a few inches to 10 feet in thickness and consists of banded varieties of low-volatile bituminous rank. Six of the coal beds--the Pocahontas Nos. 2, 3, 6, and 9, Beckley, and Sewell--contain recoverable reserves, and each has been mined by underground and strip methods. Published analyses of 78 samples from 4 of the principal beds in Mercer County indicate that the sulfur content is about 1 percent or less. Analyses of samples from 2 beds of limited extent are available for adjoining counties, and indicate as much as 12 percent sulfur. According to the latest estimate of recoverable coal reserves in Mercer County, 6 beds 28 inches or more in thickness contained 50.9 million tons of coal as of January 1, 1953. From that date to January 1, 1967, mining depleted 18.5 million tons leaving 32.4 million tons of coal, largely in the low-sulfur category.

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