Geology and coal resources of the western part of the lower Matanuska Valley coal field, Alaska

Payne, Thomas G.; Hopkins, D. W.

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“…The character of the coal beds vary within short distances as do the sandstone and shale units. Correlation of stratigraphic sections is based on lithology, sequence of beds, and thickness of stratigraphic intervals (Payne and Hopkins, 1944). Complicating factors to correlation are numefous faults, relative similarity of many beds, and lenticularity of individual beds (Tuck, 1937) .…”

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“…For example, the Premier series thickens with increased clastic content in the eastern part of the Wishbone Hill district. In the Paleocene, this area was periodically subjected to the influx of flood plain silts, whereas areas to the west were more sheltered (Barnes and Payne, 1956;Payne and Hopkins, 1944). Lower ash coal beds formed in areas of swamps inaccessible to flood waters.…”

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Coal geology and resources of the Matanuska Valley, Alaska

Merritt¹

1986

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The Matanuska Valley of south-central Alaska contains relatively small but important reserves of coal within the Chickaloon Formation of Early Tertiary age. Identified resources amount to about 90 million metric tons, and hypothetical-resource estimates range to 450 million metric tons. Most of the potentially minable resources are concentrated in the Eska-Moose (Wishbone Hill) and Chickaloon fields. Coals of the Chickaloon Formation formed in paludal swamps . I Clough and G.R. Eakins of the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys. M.A. Belowich assisted the author during field investigations and office/laboratory research.13 km wide, 80 km l ~r . 7 , 3r.d has an area of at least 5 0 0 km , and lies 8 0 to 1 6 0 km nort?:?ast of Anchorage. Its western end is 40 to 80 km northeast of tidewater, and the center of the coal field is 240 km from Seward by rail. The general trend of the coal field is N. 70°E, and it is located at 61' north latitude (Apell, 1944;Kreig and Associates, 1983).

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