This report provides a data base for decisions about lignite mining and reclamation in the Wilcox Group of East Texas. Kaiser (1974, 1978) estimates that about 12.2 billion short tons of potentially strip-minable lignite resources occur in East and South Texas.

Papers in this volume were presented at the Gulf Coast Lignite Conference held in Austin, Texas, June 1976.
Papers were edited, in some cases extensively, and subjectively grouped by discipline, paralleling that of their presentation at the Conference.

Geologic maps that depicts the surface geology of McLennan, Limestone, and Falls Counties and parts of Bosque, Hill, Navarro, Freestone, Leon, Madison, Robertson, Milam, Bell, Lampasas, Coryell, and Hamilton Counties, Texas.

In the past 100 years, more than 100 names have been used to designate parts or all of the outcropping Midway and Wilcox rocks in the Gulf Coastal Plain; less than half of these names are used currently by Coastal Plain geologists, and the validity of some of the remaining named rock units has be

One of the basic mineral resources of Texas is abundant deposits of lignite in Eocene rocks of the Gulf Coastal Plain.

A mineral resource survey of Texas has been started by the Works Progress Administration, with the Bureau of Economic Geology of The University of Texas acting as sponsor. The purpose of the survey is to assemble information and make it available to the public.

A mineral resource survey of Texas has been started by the Works Progress Administration, with the Bureau of Economic Geology of The University of Texas acting as sponsor. The purpose of the survey is to assemble information and make it available to the public.