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JIM BRIDGER PACIFIC MINERALS (9.5 MT)(A) STANSBURY (P) BLACK BUTTE KCP INC. BITTER CREEK COAL CO. (5 MT)(A) ELK MOUNTAIN ARCH COAL INC. (6 MT)(A) SEMINOE II (R) MEDICINE BOW (R) KEMMERER PITTSBURG & MIDWAY (7 MT)(A) Medicine Bow Saratoga Rawlins Sinclair Bairoil Wamsutter La Barge Big Piney Marbleton Rock Springs Green River Granger Mountain View Opal Lyman Diamondville Kemmerer Cokeville Evanston Thayne Alpine Afton North Rock Springs LINCOLN COUNTY SUBLETTE COUNTY UINTA COUNTY SWEETWATER COUNTY CARBON COUNTY 110° 111° 109° 107° 108° 43° 43° 42° 42° 41° 41° 10 0 10 20 30 40 50 KILOMETERS SCALE 1:500 000 10 0 10 20 30 40 MILES Teton Wind White Mountain (360 MW)(240)(P) Star Valley Cheese Plant Western Dairyman Company Strawberry Creek Lower Valley Energy Inc. (1.5 MW) Afton Wood Products Plant Trico Timber Inc. (9 MW)(w) Pacificorp Naughton (707.2 MW) Wyoming Wind Energy Center FPL Energy Wyoming Wind LLC (144 MW)(80) Edison Mission Group Mountain Wind (60.9 MW)(29) Fontenelle U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (10 MW) Big Island Trona Mine and Refinery Rhone-Poulnec Co. of Wyoming Cogeneration (? MW)(N) Alchem Trona Mine and Refinery General Chemical Corporation (30 MW)(N) Blacks Fork Trona Refinery Tg Soda Ash, Inc. Westvaco Trona Mine and Refinery FMC Wyoming Corporation (55.5 MW)(N) Tenneco Minerals Company Green River Trona Refinery Jim Bridger Pacificorp (2317.7 MW) Sierra Madre Anschutz Corporation (650 MW)(325)(P) Chokecherry Anschutz Corporation (1350 MW)(675)(P) Kortes U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (36 MW) Seminoe U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (51.6 MW) Dunlap Pacificorp (111 MW)(74) Seven Mile Hill Pacificorp (99 MW)(66) Medicine Bow Platte River Power Authority (8.6 MW)(10) McFadden Pacificorp (88.5 MW)(59) Foote Creek Rim AES SeaWest (84.8 MW)(133) Rock River LLC AES SeaWest ( 50 MW)(50) Hanna Site U.S. Department of Energy (A) Simpson Ridge (300 MW)(199) North Knobs (I) Cumberland Flats Commissary Ridge Little Colorado Desert B R I D G E R N A T I O N A L F O R E S T Mc Dougal Pass Sage Creek Mtn Haystack Buttes Sublettes Flat G R E E N R I V E R B A S I N B R I D G E R B A S I N ROCK SPRINGS UPLIFT Quaking Asp Mtn Oregon Buttes The Pinnacles Alkali Basin Black Rock Flat Lost Creek Basin R E D D E S E R T B A S I N G R E A T D I V I D E B A S I N W A S H A K I E B A S I N Lost Soldier DIvide Delaney Rim Red Rim Atlantic Rim Bridger Pass Severson Flats Sand Basin Haystack Mountains Point of Rocks FERRIS MOUNTAINS SEMINOE MOUNTAINS SHIRLEY MOUNTAINS Pedro Mts KINDT BASIN SIERRA MADRE M E D I C I N E B O W N A T I O N A L F O R E S T Pennock Mtn Beaver Creek Hills MEDICINE BOW Shirley Basin HOBACK BASIN B R I D G E R N A T I O N A L F O R E S T Battle Spring Flat H A N N A B A S I N Approximate surface trace of the Darby Thrust Fault system, which divides the Hamms Fork Coal Field from the Green River Coal Field FORK HAMS COAL FIELD GREEN RIVER COAL FIELD HANNA COAL FIELD ROCK SPRINGS MINING DISTRICT SUPERIOR MINING DISTRICT POINT OF ROCKS MINING DISTRICT ELK MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT HANNA MINING DISTRICT MEDICINE BOW MINING DISTRICT KEMMERER MINING DISTRICT ALMY MINING DISTRICT 191 189 237 238 236 241 89 89 89 30 354 352 353 351 232 240 372 28 28 189 350 191 191 191 189 189 487 77 72 71 789 70 230 13 130 789 287 30 30 80 UPRR UPRR UPRR 414 410 414 530 430 370 371 89 150 412 Index map showing the location of the state of Wyoming in the conterminous United States of America Fremont Park Sweetwater Carbon Natrona Teton Sublette Albany Campbell Lincoln Johnson Converse Crook Big Horn Laramie Niobrara Uinta Weston Platte Sheridan Washakie Hot Springs Goshen 104° 106° 108° 110° 45° 44° 43° 42° 41° Index map showing the location of the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, southwestern Wyoming. U N I T E D S T A T E S WYOMING EXPLANATION Note: because the coal map of Wyoming (Jones and others, 2009), was published as GIS layers, some of the data, symbology, and many of the annotations included on this plate were taken directly from that source. Pacificorp Naughton (707.2 MW) Afton Wood Products Trico Timber Inc. (9 MW) (w) Strawberry Creek Lower Valley Energy (1.5 MW) Foote Creek Rim AES SeaWest (84.8 MW)(133) JIM BRIDGER PACIFIC MINERALS 9.5 MT (A) Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative boundary—Study area boundary Coal bed outcrops—May include coal subcrop (where outcrop has burned or weathered). Includes coal beds four feet or greater in thickness that can be mapped at the scale of this map. Where coal beds are closely spaced, a line may represent more than one bed. Because of varying scales and different accuracies of maps used in compilation, outcrops may not necessarily agree with mapped formation boundaries (from Jones and others, 2009) Generalized coal rank—Colors indicate rank within coal fields (Trumbull, 1960; modified from Tully, 1996). [Some coal-rank colors may not exactly match colors on the map due to the use of transparancies to create the map] Medium and high volatile bituminous—The most abundant coal type, intermediate in rank between subbituminous coal and anthracite. High volatile bituminous coal is classified on the basis of its calorific value on a moist, ash free basis (ranging from 24 to 33 megajoules per kilogram; 10,500 to 14,000 British thermal units per pound (Btu/lb) (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010) Medium and high volatile bituminous/areas of doubtful value for coal—These may be divided into three classes: (1) areas containing thin or irregular beds, which locally may be thick enough to mine, (2) areas in which coal is of poor quality, and (3) areas where information on the thickness and quality of coal beds is meager or lacking (Trumbull, 1960) Subbituminous—Generally dark brown to black coal, intermediate in rank between lignite and bituminous coal. Subbituminous coal contains 42 to 52 percent carbon (on a dry, ash-free basis) and has calorific values ranging from about 19 to 26 megajoules per kilogram (about 8,200 to 11, 200 Btu/lb), Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010 Subbituminous/areas of doubtful value for coal—See medium and high volatile bituminous/areas of doubtful value for coal, above U.S Geological Survey National Coal Resource Assessment areas—Boundaries represent coal beds and zones that were identified and characterized for the 1999 National Coal Resource Assessment in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains region (U.S. Geological Survey Fort Union Coal Assessment Team, 1999). Color variations due to the use of transparent polygons in the map construction. U.S. Geological Survey National Coal Resource Assessment coal apparent rank—Point representation of coal quality sample indicating classification of coal according to the degree of metamorphism, progressive alteration, or coalification (maturation) in the natural series from lignite to anthracite, following the American Society for Testing and Materials, 1994, D338–92a, p. 168–171 (from U.S. Geological Survey Fort Union Coal Assessment Team, 1999). Bituminous Subbituminous U.S. Geological Survey National Oil and Gas Assessment units—Boundaries represent the geologic limit of coalbed gas assessment units (AU) as defined for the 2002 assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the southwestern Wyoming Province (U.S. Geological Survey Southwestern Wyoming Province Assessment Team, 2005) and the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Wyoming Thrust Belt Province, 2003 (Kirschbaum and others, 2004) U.S. Geological Survey National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) Stratigraphic Data Locations—Point locations of stratigraphic data from drill holes, measured sections, cores, and surface and underground coal mines that are stored in the NCRDS stratigraphic database (USTRAT), see http://energy.er.usgs.gov/coal_quality/coal_databases.html Coal mines Surface coal mine—Shaded blue areas indicate permit areas for active mines; hatched area indicates mined out/reclaimed areas. Active, proposed, or inactive mines (as of February, 2010) include mine name, permit number, mine type (surface, underground, or both) and mine status. Symbol indicates approximate location of pits for abandoned mines and can represent more than one pit. Abandoned mines with limited areal extent are unlabeled (from Jones and others, 2009) Underground coal mine—Approximate location of entrance, shaft, or underground mine workings. Active mines (as of December, 2008) include name, company, permitted or proposed productive capacity in millions of short tons (MT), and status (A=active). Symbol can represent more than one entry or mine. Abandoned mines are unlabelled (from Jones and others, 2009) Prospect—Approximate location of shallow pit or underground entry; symbol can represent more than one prospect (from Jones and others, 2009) In-situ coal gasification projects—Name of project and status (I=inactive or abandoned, A=active) as of December, 2008 (from Jones and others, 2009) Electrical generating plants—Plant name, company name, and nameplate capacity in megawatts (MW) as of December, 2008 (A=abandoned, W=wood) (from Jones and others, 2009) Coal-fired power plant Cogeneration power plant—Abbreviations for fuel used are: c, coal; d, diesel; n, natural gas; x, unknown Hydroelectric power plant Wind generating power project—Capacity in MW is total for all units. Number after capacity indicates approximate number of units; symbol may represent more that one unit (uppercase P indicates proposed). Industrial facilities using coal—Plant name and company as of December, 2008 (from Jones and others, 2009) Coal-fired industrial plant Wind turbine locations—Locations of wind turbines within Wyoming as of August, 2009. The locations are derived from the Nation Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), August 2009, true color imagery and have a positional accuracy of approximately ±5 m (O’Donnell and Facher, 2010) Atlantic Rim coalbed natural gas well status—Location and status of coalbed natural gas wells as of 2009 (Quillinan and others, 2009) Shut-in well Producing coalbed natural gas well Permitted coalbed natural gas well Injection well Abandoned coalbed natural gas well Dry hole Waiting for permit Atlantic Rim coalbed natural gas leasing units—Location of authorized and pending oil and gas units as of 2009 (from Quillinan and others, 2009) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) coalbed natural gas units—Locations of authorized and pending coalbed gas units as of June, 2010 Coalbed natural gas wells from the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission—June 2010 Rawlins–Little Snake River area geology and coal stratigraphy—Locations of coal correlation chart drill holes and lines of measured sections (from Hettinger and others, 2008) Coal correlation chart drill holes Lines of measured stratigraphic sections Interstate route Federal route State highway County boundary Railroad—Colored to indicate major coal unit train route; closed loops are unit train loadout facilites. Ownership of trackage: UPRR, Union Pacific Railroad Company. (from Jones and others, 2009) Electrical transmission line—Only transmission lines of 115 KV and greater are shown (from Jones and others, 2009) North Knobs (I) UPRR Star Valley Cheese Plant Western Dairyman Company 72 30 80 SELECTED REFERENCES Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), 2010, ESRI_World_Physical_Map, ArcGIS Online Services – Ready-to-Use Content on Demand: © ESRI, Redlands, Calif., Available at http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline/index.html. Hettinger, R.D., Honey, J.G., Ellis, M.S., Barclay, C.S.V., and East, J.A., 2008, Geologic map of Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary strata and coal stratigraphy of the Paleocene Fort Union Formation, Rawlins–Little Snake River area, south-central Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3053, 3 sheets. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3053/. Jones, N.R., Jones, R.W., Scott, J.E., and Lucke, D.W., 2009, Coal Map of Wyoming, Wyoming State Geological Survey Map Series 93. Accessed on Jan. 27, 2012 at http://www.wsgs.uwyo.edu/AboutWSGS/coal.aspx. Kirschbaum, M.A., Charpentier, R.R., Crovelli, R.A., Klett, T.R., Pollastro, R.M., and Schenk, C.J., 2004, Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Wyoming Thrust Belt Province, 2003: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2004–3025, 2 p. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2004/3025. O’Donnell, M.S., and Fancher, T.S., 2010, Spatial mapping and attribution of Wyoming wind turbines: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 524. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/524. Quillinan, S.A., Worman, B.N., Rodgers, J.R., 2009, Coalbed natural gas activity in the Atlantic Rim area, Carbon County, Wyoming, Wyoming State Geological Survey Open-File Report 09–7. Accessed on Jan. 27, 2012 at http://www.wsgs.uwyo.edu/NewsCenter/PressReleases/Jan25_2010.aspx. Trumbull, J.B.A., 1960, Coal fields of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, sheet 1: U.S. Geological Survey, scale 1:1,500,000. Tully, John, compiler, 1996, Coal fields of the Conterminous United States, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96–92. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1996/of96-092/ U.S. Geological Survey Fort Union Coal Assessment Team, 1999, Resource assessment of selected Tertiary coal beds and zones in the northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains region: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1625–A, v. 1.2. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/p1625a/. U.S. Geological Survey Southwestern Wyoming Province Assessment Team, 2005, Petroleum systems and geologic assessment of oil and gas in the Southwestern Wyoming Province, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS–69–D, v. 1.0. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-d/. Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (WOGCC), 2010, Home page: Casper, Wyo., Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Accessed on Jan. 27, 2012, at http://wogcc.state.wy.us/. U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 683 Plate 1 of 5 Base derived from ESRI World Physical Map, accessed in 2012, at http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgis-online-map-and-task- services/map-services.html Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic Central meridian, 107.5° West Standard Parallel 1, 20° North Standard Parallel 2, 60° North Latitude of origin: 40° North North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83) Edit and cartographic layout by L.J. Binder Energy Map of Southwestern Wyoming, Part A—Coal and Wind By Laura R.H. Biewick 1 and Nicholas R. Jones 2 2012 Any use of trade, product or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Although this information product, for the most part, is in the public domain, it also contains copyrighted materials as noted in the text. Permission to reproduce copyrighted items for other than personal use must be secured from the copyright owner. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system, or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. 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Transcript of Plate 1 of 5 · Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010. Subbituminous/areas of doubtful value for coal...
JIM BRIDGERPACIFIC MINERALS(9.5 MT)(A)
STANSBURY(P)
BLACK BUTTEKCP INC.
BITTER CREEKCOAL CO.(5 MT)(A)
ELK MOUNTAINARCH COAL INC.
(6 MT)(A)
SEMINOE II (R)
MEDICINE BOW (R)
KEMMERERPITTSBURG & MIDWAY
(7 MT)(A)
MedicineBow
Saratoga
Rawlins
Sinclair
Bairoil
Wamsutter
La Barge
Big PineyMarbleton
Rock Springs
Green River
Granger
Mountain View
Opal
Lyman
DiamondvilleKemmerer
Cokeville
Evanston
Thayne
Alpine
Afton
North RockSprings
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Teton WindWhite Mountain
(360 MW)(240)(P)
Star Valley Cheese PlantWestern Dairyman Company
Strawberry CreekLower Valley Energy Inc.(1.5 MW)
Afton Wood Products PlantTrico Timber Inc.(9 MW)(w)
PacificorpNaughton
(707.2 MW)
Wyoming WindEnergy CenterFPL Energy
Wyoming Wind LLC(144 MW)(80)
Edison Mission GroupMountain Wind(60.9 MW)(29)
FontenelleU.S. Bureau of Reclamation(10 MW)
Big Island Trona Mine and RefineryRhone-Poulnec Co. of WyomingCogeneration (? MW)(N)
Alchem Trona Mine and RefineryGeneral Chemical Corporation(30 MW)(N)
Blacks Fork Trona RefineryTg Soda Ash, Inc.
Westvaco Trona Mine and RefineryFMC Wyoming Corporation
(55.5 MW)(N)Tenneco Minerals CompanyGreen River Trona Refinery
Jim BridgerPacificorp(2317.7 MW)
Sierra MadreAnschutz Corporation(650 MW)(325)(P)
ChokecherryAnschutz Corporation
(1350 MW)(675)(P)
KortesU.S. Bureau of Reclamation
(36 MW)
SeminoeU.S. Bureau of Reclamation
(51.6 MW)
Dunlap Pacificorp(111 MW)(74)
Seven Mile Hill Pacificorp(99 MW)(66)
Medicine BowPlatte River Power Authority
(8.6 MW)(10)
McFaddenPacificorp
(88.5 MW)(59)
Foote Creek RimAES SeaWest
(84.8 MW)(133)
Rock River LLCAES SeaWest( 50 MW)(50)
Hanna SiteU.S. Department of Energy
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Index map showing the location of the state of Wyomingin the conterminous United States of America
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Index map showing the location of the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, southwesternWyoming.
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WYOMING
EXPLANATIONNote: because the coal map of Wyoming (Jones and others, 2009), was published as GIS layers, some of the data,
symbology, and many of the annotations included on this plate were taken directly from that source.
PacificorpNaughton
(707.2 MW)Afton Wood Products
Trico Timber Inc.(9 MW) (w)
Strawberry CreekLower Valley Energy
(1.5 MW)Foote Creek Rim
AES SeaWest(84.8 MW)(133)
JIM BRIDGERPACIFIC MINERALS
9.5 MT (A)
Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative boundary—Study area boundary
Coal bed outcrops—May include coal subcrop (where outcrop has burned or weathered). Includes coal beds four feet or greater in thickness that can be mapped at the scale of this map. Where coal beds are closely spaced, a line may represent more than one bed. Because of varying scales and different accuracies of maps used in compilation, outcrops may not necessarily agree with mapped formation boundaries (from Jones and others, 2009)
Generalized coal rank—Colors indicate rank within coal fields (Trumbull, 1960; modified from Tully, 1996). [Some coal-rank colors may not exactly match colors on the map due to the use of transparancies to create the map]
Medium and high volatile bituminous—The most abundant coal type, intermediate in rank between subbituminous coal and anthracite. High volatile bituminous coal is classified on the basis of its calorific value on a moist, ash free basis (ranging from 24 to 33 megajoules per kilogram; 10,500 to 14,000 British thermal units per pound (Btu/lb) (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010)
Medium and high volatile bituminous/areas of doubtful value for coal—These may be divided into three classes: (1) areas containing thin or irregular beds, which locally may be thick enough to mine, (2) areas in which coal is of poor quality, and (3) areas where information on the thickness and quality of coal beds is meager or lacking (Trumbull, 1960)
Subbituminous—Generally dark brown to black coal, intermediate in rank between lignite and bituminous coal. Subbituminous coal contains 42 to 52 percent carbon (on a dry, ash-free basis) and has calorific values ranging from about 19 to 26 megajoules per kilogram (about 8,200 to 11, 200 Btu/lb), Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010
Subbituminous/areas of doubtful value for coal—See medium and high volatile bituminous/areas of doubtful value for coal, above
U.S Geological Survey National Coal Resource Assessment areas—Boundaries represent coal beds and zones that were identified and characterized for the 1999 National Coal Resource Assessment in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains region (U.S. Geological Survey Fort Union Coal Assessment Team, 1999). Color variations due to the use of transparent polygons in the map construction.
U.S. Geological Survey National Coal Resource Assessment coal apparent rank—Point representation of coal quality sample indicating classification of coal according to the degree of metamorphism, progressive alteration, or coalification (maturation) in the natural series from lignite to anthracite, following the American Society for Testing and Materials, 1994, D338–92a, p. 168–171 (from U.S. Geological Survey Fort Union Coal Assessment Team, 1999).
Bituminous
Subbituminous
U.S. Geological Survey National Oil and Gas Assessment units—Boundaries represent the geologic limit of coalbed gas assessment units (AU) as defined for the 2002 assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the southwestern Wyoming Province (U.S. Geological Survey Southwestern Wyoming Province Assessment Team, 2005) and the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Wyoming Thrust Belt Province, 2003 (Kirschbaum and others, 2004)
U.S. Geological Survey National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) Stratigraphic Data Locations—Point locations of stratigraphic data from drill holes, measured sections, cores, and surface and underground coal mines that are stored in the NCRDS stratigraphic database (USTRAT), see http://energy.er.usgs.gov/coal_quality/coal_databases.html
Coal mines
Surface coal mine—Shaded blue areas indicate permit areas for active mines; hatched area indicates mined out/reclaimed areas. Active, proposed, or inactive mines (as of February, 2010) include mine name, permit number, mine type (surface, underground, or both) and mine status. Symbol indicates approximate location of pits for abandoned mines and can represent more than one pit. Abandoned mines with limited areal extent are unlabeled (from Jones and others, 2009)
Underground coal mine—Approximate location of entrance, shaft, or underground mine workings. Active mines (as of December, 2008) include name, company, permitted or proposed productive capacity in millions of short tons (MT), and status (A=active). Symbol can represent more than one entry or mine. Abandoned mines are unlabelled (from Jones and others, 2009)
Prospect—Approximate location of shallow pit or underground entry; symbol can represent more than one prospect (from Jones and others, 2009)
In-situ coal gasification projects—Name of project and status (I=inactive or abandoned, A=active) as of December, 2008 (from Jones and others, 2009)
Electrical generating plants—Plant name, company name, and nameplate capacity in megawatts (MW) as of December, 2008 (A=abandoned, W=wood) (from Jones and others, 2009)
Coal-fired power plant
Cogeneration power plant—Abbreviations for fuel used are: c, coal; d, diesel; n, natural gas; x, unknown
Hydroelectric power plant
Wind generating power project—Capacity in MW is total for all units. Number after capacity indicates approximate number of units; symbol may represent more that one unit (uppercase P indicates proposed).
Industrial facilities using coal—Plant name and company as of December, 2008 (from Jones and others, 2009)
Coal-fired industrial plant
Wind turbine locations—Locations of wind turbines within Wyoming as of August, 2009. The locations are derived from the Nation Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), August 2009, true color imagery and have a positional accuracy of approximately ±5 m (O’Donnell and Facher, 2010)
Atlantic Rim coalbed natural gas well status—Location and status of coalbed natural gas wells as of 2009 (Quillinan and others, 2009)
Shut-in well
Producing coalbed natural gas well
Permitted coalbed natural gas well
Injection well
Abandoned coalbed natural gas well
Dry hole
Waiting for permit
Atlantic Rim coalbed natural gas leasing units—Location of authorized and pending oil and gas units as of 2009 (from Quillinan and others, 2009)
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) coalbed natural gas units—Locations of authorized and pending coalbed gas units as of June, 2010
Coalbed natural gas wells from the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission—June 2010
Rawlins–Little Snake River area geology and coal stratigraphy—Locations of coal correlation chart drill holes and lines of measured sections (from Hettinger and others, 2008)
Coal correlation chart drill holes
Lines of measured stratigraphic sections
Interstate route
Federal route
State highway
County boundary
Railroad—Colored to indicate major coal unit train route; closed loops are unit train loadout facilites. Ownership of trackage: UPRR, Union Pacific Railroad Company. (from Jones and others, 2009)
Electrical transmission line—Only transmission lines of 115 KV and greater are shown (from Jones and others, 2009)
North Knobs(I)
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Data Series 683Plate 1 of 5
Base derived from ESRI World Physical Map, accessed in 2012, at http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgis-online-map-and-task-services/map-services.html
Projection: Lambert Conformal ConicCentral meridian, 107.5° WestStandard Parallel 1, 20° NorthStandard Parallel 2, 60° NorthLatitude of origin: 40° North
North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83)
Edit and cartographic layout by L.J. Binder
Energy Map of Southwestern Wyoming, Part A—Coal and WindBy
Laura R.H. Biewick1 and Nicholas R. Jones2
2012
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