A Possible Origin for the Lignites of North Dakota

Authors

Frank A. WilderFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

The lignite of North Dakota occupies part of an area that is shared by the neighboring states of Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota, and by Assiniboia on the north. The total area of this lignite field in the United States alone is 70,000 square miles, apportioned as follows: North Dakota 31,500, Montana 25,000, Wyoming 9,000, and South Dakota 4,500. It is probable that all of this field does not contain lignite beds of workable thickness, but studies carried on in North Dakota and Montana during the past summer indicate that thick beds are very general, and that often a series of four or five are separated by relatively thin strata of clay. Some of the beds are very thick, one which out crops near the Little Missouri in southwestern North Dakota measuring forty feet, while twenty-foot beds are not uncommon.

Publication Date

1902

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences

Volume

10

Issue

1

First Page

129

Last Page

135

Copyright

©1902 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Wilder, Frank A. (1902) "A Possible Origin for the Lignites of North Dakota," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 10(1), 129-135.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol10/iss1/24