The petrographic, palynologic, and geochemical character of the high volatile A bituminous Pennsylvanian (Bashkerian, Duckmantian) Pond Creek coal was evaluated for a series of mine samples in the Lick Creek and Jamboree 7 ½’ quadrangles in Pike County, Kentucky. In its prime years of production, the Pond Creek coal was among the most important coal resources in the leading coal producing state in the U.S. The thickness and quality of the Pond Creek coal was closely related to its position relative to the northwestward-plunging, N20°E-trending Belfry anticline with the main bed of the coal thinning and the thickness of rock between the latter and the high-S Pond Creek rider bed thinning across the anticline. This suggests that the Belfry anticline and the Pond Creek mire were contemporaneous features, with the rising anticline influencing the lithology and chemistry of the peat. Within the study area, the lower three lithotypes fill the original topography and the next higher lithotype pinching out along the rise towards the anticline. The next three lithologies, a thick bright zone (zone 4 in the nomenclature of this study), a bone coal, and a thinner bright zone are continuous through the study area, although they all thin towards the anticline. The upper durain, the termination of the coal seam, also pinches out towards the anticline. Zone 4 shows a decrease in total vitrinite towards the uppermost bench of the zone, an upwards increase in ash yield, the upwards increase in the floral diversity, and a higher concentration of Mn, CaO, and Ba + Sr in the lower lithologies of the zone. Towards the anticline, there is a greater floral stability within zone 4 compared to the relatively subsiding area to the east. Within the zone 4 bright lithologies, peat growth outpaced the level of the water table, but at the cost of the turnover of the arborescent lycopod forest to a more diminutive flora, the collapse of the ombrogenous peat, and the influx of deeper water and the consequent deposition of the overlying relatively high-ash bone coal.

对位于肯塔基州派克县的 Lick Creek 和 Jamboree 7 ½' 四合院中的一系列矿样，评估了高挥发性宾夕法尼亚州（Bashkerian，Duckmantian）Pond Creek 煤的岩相学、孢粉学和地球化学特征。在其生产的黄金时期，Pond Creek 煤炭是美国主要煤炭生产州最重要的煤炭资源之一 Pond Creek 煤炭的厚度和质量与其相对于西北向 N20 的位置密切相关° E- 趋势钟楼背斜与主煤层变薄，后者和高 S Pond Creek 骑手床之间的岩石厚度变薄穿过背斜。这表明 Belfry 背斜和 Pond Creek 泥沼是同时期的特征，上升的背斜影响着泥炭的岩性和化学性质。在研究区内，较低的三个岩型填满了原始地形，下一个较高的岩型沿着上升向背斜尖灭。接下来的三个岩性，一个厚亮带（本研究命名中的 4 带）、一个骨煤和一个较薄的亮带在研究区是连续的，尽管它们都向背斜变薄。上层岩层，煤层的末端，也向背斜倾斜。带 4 显示出该带最上台的总镜质体减少，灰分产量向上增加，花卉多样性向上增加，并且在该带的下部岩性中 Mn、CaO 和 Ba + Sr 的浓度更高区。在背斜方向，与东部相对下沉的区域相比，4 区的花卉稳定性更高。在 4 区明亮岩性内，泥炭的生长速度超过了地下水位，但代价是树状石松林转变为更小的植物区系、同质泥炭的崩塌、更深水的流入和随后沉积了上覆的相对高灰分的骨煤。在该带的较低岩性中，Mn、CaO 和 Ba + Sr 的浓度较高。在背斜方向，与东部相对下沉的区域相比，4 区的花卉稳定性更高。在 4 区明亮岩性内，泥炭的生长速度超过了地下水位，但代价是树状石松林转变为更小的植物区系、同质泥炭的崩塌、更深水的流入和随后沉积了上覆的相对高灰分的骨煤。在该带的较低岩性中，Mn、CaO 和 Ba + Sr 的浓度较高。在背斜方向，与东部相对下沉的区域相比，4 区的花卉稳定性更高。在 4 区明亮岩性内，泥炭的生长速度超过了地下水位，但代价是树状石松林转变为更小的植物区系、同质泥炭的崩塌、更深水的流入和随后沉积了上覆的相对高灰分的骨煤。