Geologic and Hydrologic Assessment of Natural Gas from Coal: Greater Green River, Piceance, Powder River, and Raton Basins, Western US

Tyler, Roger; Scott, Anthony; Hamilton, D.S.; Ambrose, William A.

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“…Structural subsidence in the eastern Greater Green River Basin during the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian; Lance Formation) was contemporaneous with paludal, lacustrine, and fluvial deposition, while the bulk of Laramide deformation in the Maastrichtian (Lillegraven & Ostresh, ) influenced local depocenters and sediment sources. By the Paleocene, the basins were characterized by coal‐forming peat swamps, lacustrine settings, and the intermittent deposition of clastics (Tyler et al, ).…”

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Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Upper Cretaceous to Paleocene Sandstones From South‐Central Wyoming: Evidence for Middle Campanian Laramide Deformation

Lynds

Xie

2019

Tectonics

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Section: Geological Frameworkmentioning

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Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Upper Cretaceous to Paleocene Sandstones From South‐Central Wyoming: Evidence for Middle Campanian Laramide Deformation

Lynds

Xie

2019

Tectonics

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“…CBM occurs in close association with coal, but has the potential to be less ecologically intrusive to extract, and emits fewer air pollutants when burned (Logan and Chandler, 1998;Lennon, 2006). More than 20 trillion cubic meters of CBM reserves are conservatively estimated for the conterminous United States, and perhaps three trillion cubic meters being economically recoverable (Tyler et al, 1995;Montgomery, 1999). There has been a significant increase in CBM development in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico (Rice et al, 2000) as a result of large monetary returns, increased demand for energy from consumers, and technological advancements in CBM extraction methods.…”

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Invasive species and coal bed methane development in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Bergquist

Evangelista

Stohlgren

et al. 2006

Environ Monit Assess

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One of the fastest growing areas of natural gas production is coal bed methane (CBM) due to the large monetary returns and increased demand for energy from consumers. The Powder River Basin, Wyoming is one of the most rapidly expanding areas of CBM development with projections of the establishment of up to 50,000 wells. CBM disturbances may make the native ecosystem more susceptible to invasion by non-native species, but there are few studies that have been conducted on the environmental impacts of this type of resource extraction. To evaluate the potential effects of CBM development on native plant species distribution and patterns of non-native plant invasion, 36 modified Forest Inventory and Analysis plots (each comprised of four 168-m2 subplots) were established in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming. There were 73 168-m2 subplots on control sites; 42 subplots on secondary disturbances; 14 on major surface disturbances; eight on well pads; and seven on sites downslope of CBM wells water discharge points. Native plant species cover ranged from 39.5 +/- 2.7% (mean +/- 1 SE) in the secondary disturbance subplots to 17.7 +/- 7.5% in the pad subplots. Non-native plant species cover ranged from 31.0 +/- 8.4% in the discharge areas to 14.7 +/- 8.9% in the pad subplots. The control subplots had significantly less non-native species richness than the combined disturbance types. The combined disturbance subplots had significantly greater soil salinity than the control sites. These results suggest that CBM development and associated disturbances may facilitate the establishment of non-native plants. Future research and management decisions should consider the accumulative landscape-scale effects of CBM development on preserving native plant diversity.

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Defining Coalbed Methane Exploration Fairways: An Example from the Piceance Basin, Rocky Mountain Foreland, Western United States

Tyler

Scott

Kaiser

1999

Coalbed Methane: Scientific, Environmental and Economic Evaluation

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Geologic and Hydrologic Assessment of Natural Gas from Coal: Greater Green River, Piceance, Powder River, and Raton Basins, Western US

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Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Upper Cretaceous to Paleocene Sandstones From South‐Central Wyoming: Evidence for Middle Campanian Laramide Deformation

Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Upper Cretaceous to Paleocene Sandstones From South‐Central Wyoming: Evidence for Middle Campanian Laramide Deformation

Invasive species and coal bed methane development in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Defining Coalbed Methane Exploration Fairways: An Example from the Piceance Basin, Rocky Mountain Foreland, Western United States

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