**National Coal Resource Assessment:****Geologic Assessment of Coal in the Colorado  Plateau:****Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah***(***Available on CD-ROM***: contact*Energy Team CD Distribution*)*To view the report  entirely in PDF format Start  HEREHELP with PDF problems  Click HERE
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**National Coal Resource Assessment**
 
**EXECUTIVE SUMMARY****(PDF file)**–Geologic  Assessment of Coal in the Colorado Plateau: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico,  and Utah
By Mark A. Kirschbaum
**CHAPTER  A****(PDF file)**–INTRODUCTION:  Geologic Assessment of Coal in the Colorado Plateau
By Mark A. Kirschbaum
**CHAPTER  B****(PDF file)**–A Summary of the Coal Deposits in the  Colorado Plateau: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah
By Mark A. Kirschbaum and Laura R.H. Biewick
**CHAPTER  C****(PDF file)****–**Methodology for Calculating Coal  Resources  for the Colorado Plateau
By Laura N.R. Roberts,  Michael E. Brownfield, Robert D. Hettinger, and Edward A. Johnson
**CHAPTER  D****(PDF file)**–The Colorado Plateau  Geographic Information System (GIS): An Introduction to the ArcView Project  and Data Library
By Laura R.H. Biewick 1 and Tracey J. Mercier
**CHAPTER  E****(PDF file)**–Federally Owned Coal Assessment and Federal  Lands in the Colorado Plateau Region
By Carol L. Molnia, Laura N.R. Roberts, Laura R.H. Biewick, and Lee M. Osmonson 
**CHAPTER  F****(PDF file)**–Coal Availability,  Recoverability, and Economic Evaluations of Coal Resources in the Colorado  Plateau: Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah
By Timothy J. Rohrbacher, Carol L. Molnia,  Lee M. Osmonson, M. Devereux Carter, Wynn Eakins  Gretchen K. Hoffman, David E. Tabet, Janet E.  Schultz, David C. Scott, Dale D. Teeters,  Glen E. Jones, Jeffrey C.  Quick, Brigitte P. Hucka, and John A. Hanson 
**CHAPTER  G****(PDF file)**–Quality  Characterization of Cretaceous Coal from the Colorado Plateau Coal Assessment  Area
By Ronald H. Affolter 
**CHAPTER  H****(PDF file)**–Summary of  Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Coal Distribution, Black Mesa Basin, Arizona
By J. Dale Nations,  Robert L. Swift, and Henry W. Haven, Jr.
**CHAPTER  I****(PDF file)**–Summary of the Stratigraphy,Coal  Resources, and Coal-Bed Methane Potential of Northwest Colorado
By Michael E.  Brownfield, Robert D. Hettinger, and Edward A. Johnson
**CHAPTER  J****(PDF file)**–Summary of Coal Distribution and Geology in  the Kaiparowits Plateau, Utah
By Robert D. Hettinger
**CHAPTER  K****(PDF file)**–Summary of Geology  and Coal Resources of the Blackhawk Formation in the Southern Wasatch  Plateau, Central Utah
By Russell F. Dubiel
**CHAPTER  L****(PDF file)**–Coal-Bed Methane  Gas-In-Place Resource Estimates Using Sorption Isotherms and Burial History  Reconstruction: An Example from the Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos  Shale, Utah
By Todd A. Dallegge and Charles E. Barker
**CHAPTER  M****(PDF file)**–Assessment of the  Distribution and Resources of Coal in the Fairfield Group of the Williams  Fork Formation, Danforth Hills Coal Field, Northwest Colorado
By M.E. Brownfield,  L.N.R. Roberts, E.A. Johnson, and T.J. Mercier 
**CHAPTER  N****(PDF file)**–Assessment of the  Distribution and Resources of Coal in the Deserado  Coal Area, Lower White River Coal Field, Northwest Colorado
By M.E. Brownfield,  L.N.R. Roberts, E.A. Johnson, and T.J. Mercier
**CHAPTER  O****(PDF file)**–Investigations of  the Distribution  Assessment and Resources of Coal in the Southern Part  of the Piceance Basin, Colorado
By Robert D.  Hettinger, Laura N.R. Roberts,  and T.A. Gognat
**CHAPTER  P****(PDF file)**–Geology and Resource  Assessment of the Middle and Upper Coal Groups in the Yampa Coal Field,  Northwestern Colorado
By Edward A. Johnson,  Laura N.R. Roberts, Michael E. Brownfield, and Tracey J. Mercier
**CHAPTER  Q****(PDF file)**–Geology and Coal  Resources of the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland Formation, San Juan Basin, New  Mexico and Colorado
By James E. Fassett
**CHAPTER  R****(PDF file)**–Coal Resources of  the Henry Mountains Coal Field, Utah
By David E. Tabet
**CHAPTER  S****(PDF file)**–Geology and Coal  Resources of the Blackhawk Formation in the Southern Wasatch Plateau, Central  Utah
By Russell F. Dubiel, Mark A. Kirschbaum,   Laura N.R. Roberts, Tracey J. Mercier, and A. Heinrich
**CHAPTER  T****(PDF file)**–Geologic Overview  and Resource Assessment of Coal in the Kaiparowits  Plateau, Southern Utah
By Robert D.  Hettinger, Laura N.R. Roberts, Laura R.H. Biewick,  and Mark A. Kirschbaum
**DATA FILES**  Digital map data and Stratigraphic Database for some of the priority coal  assessment areas. 
 **U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1625-B**
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