Alaska Coal Geology: GIS Data
Estimated Alaska coal resources are largely in Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks distributed in three major provinces. Northern Alaska-Slope, Central Alaska-Nenana, and Southern Alaska-Cook Inlet. Cretaceous resources, predominantly bituminous coal and lignite, are in the Northern Alaska-Slope coal province. Most of the Tertiary resources, mainly lignite to subbituminous coal with minor amounts of bituminous and semianthracite coals, are in the other two provinces. The combined measured, indicated, inferred, and hypothetical coal resources in the three areas are estimated to be 5,526 billion short tons (5,012 billion metric tons), which constitutes about 87 percent of Alaska's coal and surpasses the total coal resources of the conterminous United States by 40 percent. Available here: GIS shapefiles of relevant faults and geology, associated with the following report: http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-077/pdf/DDS-77.pdf
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AB - Estimated Alaska coal resources are largely in Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks distributed in three major provinces. Northern Alaska-Slope, Central Alaska-Nenana, and Southern Alaska-Cook Inlet. Cretaceous resources, predominantly bituminous coal and lignite, are in the Northern Alaska-Slope coal province. Most of the Tertiary resources, mainly lignite to subbituminous coal with minor amounts of bituminous and semianthracite coals, are in the other two provinces. The combined measured, indicated, inferred, and hypothetical coal resources in the three areas are estimated to be 5,526 billion short tons (5,012 billion metric tons), which constitutes about 87 percent of Alaska's coal and surpasses the total coal resources of the conterminous United States by 40 percent. Available here: GIS shapefiles of relevant faults and geology, associated with the following report: http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-077/pdf/DDS-77.pdf
AU - Hallett, KC
A2 - USGS,
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO -
KW - Alaska
KW - GIS
KW - USGS
KW - coal
LA - English
DA - 2005/09/19
PY - 2005
PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
T1 - Alaska Coal Geology: GIS Data
UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/473
ER -
Hallett, KC, and USGS. Alaska Coal Geology: GIS Data. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 19 September, 2005, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/473.
Hallett, K., & USGS, . (2005). Alaska Coal Geology: GIS Data. [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.openei.org/submissions/473
Hallett, KC and USGS. Alaska Coal Geology: GIS Data. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, September, 19, 2005. Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/473
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_473,
title = {Alaska Coal Geology: GIS Data},
author = {Hallett, KC and USGS, },
abstractNote = {Estimated Alaska coal resources are largely in Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks distributed in three major provinces. Northern Alaska-Slope, Central Alaska-Nenana, and Southern Alaska-Cook Inlet. Cretaceous resources, predominantly bituminous coal and lignite, are in the Northern Alaska-Slope coal province. Most of the Tertiary resources, mainly lignite to subbituminous coal with minor amounts of bituminous and semianthracite coals, are in the other two provinces. The combined measured, indicated, inferred, and hypothetical coal resources in the three areas are estimated to be 5,526 billion short tons (5,012 billion metric tons), which constitutes about 87 percent of Alaska's coal and surpasses the total coal resources of the conterminous United States by 40 percent. Available here: GIS shapefiles of relevant faults and geology, associated with the following report: http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-077/pdf/DDS-77.pdf},
url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/473},
year = {2005},
howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.openei.org/submissions/473},
note = {Accessed: 2025-04-23}
}
Details
Data from Sep 19, 2005
Last updated Jul 29, 2014
Submitted Jul 29, 2014
Organization
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Contact
KC Hallett
