Coal resource information. Volume 2, part 1: reviews of major resource studies and ongoing research. Final report. [USA; national and by state]

This volume - Part 1 - presents critical reviews of selected major research studies of US coal resources. The reviews and listings are developed from materials collected through 1977 and early 1978. The reviews cover both published and ongoing research reports, divided into General, National, Regional, and Coal Quality categories. Documents collections published in series format by the US Bureau of Mines or the US Geological Survey are reviewed. Each review provides a summary of the information in the document, a clear statement of the intended purpose(s) of the study, and a critical judgment as to how well that purpose was executed. Liberal use of tables, maps, and other illustrations from the documents themselves gives further insight into the content of the report under review. All publications are approached from the viewpoint of a coal researcher seeking reference tools; critical judgments of the value of a document depend largely on its usefulness to such a researcher. The listings of ongoing research projects are organized by state headings, with the additional heading of United States for studies whose geographic scope is larger than a single state. Each entry provides the essential bibliographical information as to author, sponsoring organization, title, and approximatemore » dates of the project. Following this, the listing presents a brief paragraph description of the substance of the project. The overall aim of these listings is to bring the bibliographical effort as much up-to-date as possible by including reports still in preparation.« less