InternationalJournal of Coal Geology, 16 (1990) 351-353 351 Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam

Contents Volume 16, 1990

Special issue Peat and coal: origin, facies, and coalification, edited by PAUL C. LYONS, THOMAS G. CALL- COTT, and BORIS ALPERN

Introduction ............................................................................................................................ ix

Part I: Selected Papers

Coal-forming plants through time in North America Aureal T. Cross and Tom L. Phillips ................................................................................. 1

Petrology of some Permian coals of India H.K. Mishra, T.K. Chandra and R.P. Verma .................................................................... 47

Permo-Carboniferous paleogeography and coal accumulation and their tectonic control in the North and South China continental plates Guanghua Liu .................................................................................................................... 73

Part II: Introduction of Dr. Marlies Teichmiiller (keynote speaker) Paul C. Lyons .......................................................................................................................... 119

Part III: Peat and Coal Facies

Genesis of coal from the viewpoint of coal geology M. Teichmiiller .................................................................................................................. 121

Organics versus clastics: conditions necessary for peat (coal) deveopment L. Courel ............................................................................................................................ 125

The geology of selected peat-forming environments in temperate and tropical latitudes C.C. Cameron, C.A. Palmer and J.S. Esterle ..................................................................... 127

On the use of modern tropical domed peats as analogues for petrographic variation in Carboniferous coal beds J.S. Esterle and J.C. Ferm .................................................................................................. 131

OPEN DISCUSSION ............................................................................................................. 137

The Changuinola peat deposit of northwestern Panama: a tropical, domed, back-barrier coal-forming environment A.D. Cohen, R. Raymond, Jr., A. Ramirez, Z. Morales and F. Ponce .............................. 139

The inorganic chemistry of peat from the Okavango Delta (fan), Botswana: implications for low-ash coal formation T.S. McCarthy, J.R. Mclver, B. Cairncross, W.N. Ellery and K. Ellery ............................ 143

Relationship of megascopic coal types to quality variation within Eocene-age, Indonesian coal beds T.A. Moore, J.C. Ferm and G.A. Weisenfluh .................................................................... 147

Coal-forming peat plants and some associated floras, Devonian to Tertiary, North America A.T. Cross and T.L. Phillips .............................................................................................. 150

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From plants to coal: peat taphonomy of Upper Carboniferous coals F.L. Phillips and W.A. DiMichclc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ! 5 i

Applications oftonsteins to coal geology: some examples from western United States D. Triplehorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 '

Formation of coals on wave-dominated strandplains D.A. Leckie and W. Kalkreuth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

An Appalachian-sourced deltaic sequence, northeastern Alabama, USA: biofacies-litho- facies relationships and interpreted community patterns R.A. Gastaldo, M.A. Gibson and T.D. Gray ..................................................................... 163

Thrust-ridge paleodepositional model for the Upper Freeport coal bed and associated elastic facies, Upper Potomac coal field. Appalachian Basin, U.S.A. E.S. Belt and P.C. Lyons ................................................................................................... 167

Sedimentary dynamics in French coal-measures reconstituted by decompaction and litho- /bio-facies analysis E. Salinas, B. Beaudoin, 1. Cojan and D. Mercier ............................................................. 171

Tectono-sedimentary settings and controls of the Karoo Basin Permian coals, South Africa B. Cairncross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Permo-Carboniferous paleogeography and coal accumulation in North China and South China continental plates Guanghua Liu .................................................................................................................... 179

Study on lithofacies paleogeography of Zhungeer coal field and its methodology in Inner Mongolia of China Liu Huanjie, Jia Yuru, Long Yaozhen and Wang Hongwei ............................................... 181

Part 1 ¢- Su l f u r a n d Trace E l e m e n t s in Coal

Sulfur sources and sulfur bonding of some central European attrital brown coals P. Adolphi, M. StGrr, P.G. Mahlberg, H.H. Murray and E.M. Ripley .............................. 185

Chemistry and origin of minor and trace elements in selected vitrinite concentrates from bituminous and anthracitic coals C.A. Palmer and P.C. Lyons .............................................................................................. 189

Part 1~ Geochemica l , Coal Petrologic, a n d Coal i f ica t ion S tu d i e s

Organic geochemical studies of the transformation of gymnospermous xylem during pea- tification and coalification to subbituminous coal P.G. Hatcher, H.E. Lerch, III, and T.V. Verheyen ............................................................ 193

Paleoecological trends and petroleum potential of Upper Carboniferous coal seams of western Germany R. Littke, H. Lo ten Haven and D. Leythaeuser ................................................................ 197

Reflectance anisotropy of Carboniferous coals in the Appalachian Foreland Basin, Penn- sylvania, U.S.A. J.R. Levine and A. Davis ................................................................................................... 201

Studies of angiospermous woods in Australian brown coal by nuclear magnetic resonance and analytical pyrolysis: new insight into early coalification P.G. Hatcher, M.A. Wilson, M. Vassalto and H.E. Lerch, III ........................................... 205

Petrology of some Permian coals of India H.K. Mishra, T.K. Chandra and R.P. Verma .................................................................... 208

Rank evaluation of south Brazilian Gondwana coals on the basis of different chemical and physical parameters Z.C. Corrfia da Silva .......................................................................................................... 209

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Distribution and coalification patterns in Canadian bituminous and anthracite coals P.A. Hacquebard and A.R. Cameron ................................................................................ 211

Semianthracite, anthracite and meta-anthracite in central Canadian Cordillera: their ge- ology, characteristics and coalification history R.M. Bustin and I. Moffat ................................................................................................. 214

Effects of thrust faulting on organic maturation in the southeastern Canadian Cordillera - - field evidence and theoretical considerations R.M. Bustin and T.D.J. England ....................................................................................... 217

Regional coalification of Lower Cretaceous coal-bearing strata, Rocky Mountain Footh- ills and Foreland, British Columbia and adjacent parts of Alberta, Canada W. Kalkreuth, W. Langenbert and M. McMechan ............................................................ 219

Geological information obtained from coal and coalified dispersed organic matter in the Tertiary system of Japanese Islands A. Aihara ........................................................................................................................... 221

Effect of coalification on spontaneous combustion of coals D. Chandra and Y.V.S. Prasad .......................................................................................... 225

Simulation of natural coalification by high-pressure pyrolysis P. Landais, M. Monthioux and B. Poty ............................................................................. 230

Tectonic influence on vitrinite reflectance M.F. Middleton ................................................................................................................ 235

Research Papers Cretaceous and Eocene lignite deposits, Jackson Purchase, Kentucky

J.C. Hower (Lexington, Ky., U.S.A. ), F.J. Rich (Rapid City, S.D., U.S.A. ), D.A. Wil- liams (Henderson, Ky., U.S.A.), A.E. Bland and F.L. Fiene (Lexington, Ky., U.S.A.) .............................................................................................................................. 239

Paleoecological interpretation of a Middle Pennsylvanian coal bed in the central Appa- lachian basin, U.S.A. C.F. Eble (Reston, Va., U.S.A.) and W.C. Grady (Morgantown, W. Va., U.S.A.) .......... 255

Petrology, depositional environment and utilization potential of Late Paleocene coals from the Obed-Marsh deposit, west-central Alberta, Canada T. Gentzis (Devon, Alta., Canada) and F. Goodarzi (Calgary, Alta., Canada) .............. 287

Geochemistry and sedimentology of coal seams from the Permian Witbank Coalfield, South Africa; a means of identification B. Cairncross and R.J. Hart (Johannesburg, South Africa), and J.P. Willis (Ronde- bosch, South Africa) .......................................................................................................... 309

A review and interpretation of evidence concerning the origin of Victorian Brown Coal K.B. Anderson (Argonne, I11., U.S.A.) and G. Mackay (Howard St. Richmond, Vic., Australia) .......................................................................................................................... 327

Erratum .................................................................................................................................. 349

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