Shallow coal exploration drill-hole data--Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas

Valentine, Brett J.; Dennen, Kristin O.

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Coal exploration drill-hole data from over 24,000 wells in 10 States are discussed by State in the chapters of this report, and the data are provided in an accompanying spreadsheet. The drill holes were drilled between 1962 and 1984 by Phillips Coal Company, a division of Phillips Petroleum Company (Phillips). The data were donated to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 2001 by the North American Coal Corporation, which purchased the Phillips assets as part of a larger dataset. Under the terms of the agreement with North American Coal Corporation, the data were deemed proprietary until February 2011, a period of 10 years after the donation (Appendix of Chapter A). Now that the required period of confidentiality has passed, the data have been digitized from tabulated data files to create unified and spatially consistent coal exploration drill-hole maps and reports for the States of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. The data are made publically available by this report.

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Valentine, Brett J.; Dennen, Kristin O.

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102

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iii, iii, A6 p., iii, B5 p., iii, C5 p., iii, D5 p., iii, E6 p., iii, F5 p., iii, G5 p., iii, H7 p., iii, I5 p., iii, J8 p., iii, K9 p.; PDF Downloads of Chapters A-K; XLS Downloads of Appendices B-K

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Open-File Report

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2011-1261

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Shallow coal exploration drill-hole data--Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas; 2012; OFR; 2011-1261; Valentine, Brett J.; Dennen, Kristin O.