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.

In east-central Texas, or the area between the Colorado
and Trinity Rivers, the Wilcox Group (lower Eocene) is divided
into three formations. Up section they are the Hooper,
Simsboro, and Calvert Bluff. At Alcoa and Butler, lower Calvert

Geologic map that depicts the surface geology of Burleson, Lee, Washington, and Brazos Counties and parts of Burnet, Bell, Milam, Robertson, Madison, Grimes, Waller, Austin, Fayette, Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, and Williamson Counties.

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

These circulars issued from the Bureau of Economic Geology contain the record of cores and cuttings from well received and described in the Bureau.