This report presents a variety of data related to the assessment of Federal coal reserves in Arkansas.

It includes:

• A general discussion of the geology, stratigraphy, and structure of the formations containing potentially mineable coal beds
• 30 blackline reduced scale topographic maps with coal sites, outcrop of coal beds, structure, and site identification numbers
• A table containing basic data for coal localities in west-central Arkansas, including location (GLO, lat.-long., and UTM grid), formation and coal bed name, thickness, elevation, coal analyses (if available), source of data
• A table containing proximate and ultimate analyses of coal beds in study area
• A table of major, minor, and trace-element composition of coal samples, reported on a whole-coal basis
• A table of major and minor oxide and trace-element composition of laboratory ash of coal samples from Arkansas
• An extensive reference list related to coal, coal analysis, coal mining, and methods of sampling for coal analysis

*Includes:  73 pages, 30 plates, 4 figures, 9 tables