“…Various aspects of Appalachian CBM are summarized in this paper including legal and economic constraints, CBM fields and stratigraphy, depth to coal beds and coalification, cleats, CBM composition and desorption data, production, and CBM potential of different areas of the central and northern Appalachian basin. Additional references on the subject appear in a selected bibliography of Appalachian coalbed methane by Lyons and Ryder (1995).…”