JIN Zhenkui; ZHANG Xiangxiang; ZHAO Kuanzhi; LIU Ronghui and WANG Chunsheng
, 2004, 31(5): 911-0.
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Sea level fluctuation can control both the types of sedimentary environments and types and scales of swamps. Sea level fluctuation is closely related with abundance of coal, coal thickness, coal lateral stability, coal composition, coal ash production rate, coal gangue distribution, etc. As these parameters can influence porosity and permeability of coal beds, sea level fluctuation directly or indirectly controls porosity development and heterogeneity of coal beds. The study on coals of the upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, shows that during rapid rise of sea level (transgressive system tract), the coal beds formed are few and thin. They are mostly lenticular in shape and unstable laterally, and thus their lateral heterogeneity is strong. But their gangue beds are less, ash production rate is low, and intrabed heterogeneity is weak. During relative fall of sea level (high-stand system tract), the coal beds formed are many and thick, which are mostly sheet-shaped and stable laterally, and thus their lateral heterogeneity is weak. But their gangue beds are many, ash production rate is high, and intrabed heterogeneity is strong. In interbedded marine-nonmarine strata, frequent fluctuation of sea level results in frequent change of coal bed characteristics, and thus interbed heterogeneity is strong.