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Lignites from the Plains region of Alberta, Canada—Part 1: Petrography and depositional environment.
- Source :
- Energy Sources Part A: Recovery, Utilization & Environmental Effects; 2016, Vol. 38 Issue 10, p1326-1335, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- The petrography of two coal seams in Alberta was determined using reflected light microscopy. Random reflectance is 0.36%, indicating a lignite rank. Huminite is dominant over liptinite and inertinite. Maceral assemblage suggests a wet forest moor depositional paleoenvironment. The predominance of telohuminite and gelohuminite over detrohuminite and inertodetrinite reveals peat formation in a rather reducing environment and a rapid burial of the peat, which prevented any significant oxidation. A few intervals with high levels of oxyfusinite reveal periodic drops of the water table. Results coincide with the interpretation based on the Na/K ratio, which is used as an indicator of the rate of sedimentation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- PETROLOGY
LIGNITE
COAL geology
SEDIMENTATION & deposition
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15567036
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Energy Sources Part A: Recovery, Utilization & Environmental Effects
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 116266228
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15567036.2014.916365