GENERAL COAL AND ORGANIC PETROLOGY

This commission is concerned with the establishment of uniform nomenclature and analytical methods used throughout the field of coal and organic petrology. As in all of the Commissions, the Working Groups in Commission I change from time to time depending upon current interests; however, important emphases have been upon the standardisation of reflectance, maceral, fluorescence analyses and maceral nomenclature.
The commission hosts the Accreditation Program for single seam coal analysis (SCAP).

CHAIR

Dr. Deolinda Flores
Departamento e Centro de Geologia da Faculdade de Ciencias
da Universidade do Porto
Rua do Campo Alegre, 687
4169-007 Porto
PORTUGAL
Tel.: 351-220402468
Fax: 351-220402490
E-mail: dflores_(at)_fc.up.pt 

SECRETARY

Dr. Stavros Kalaitzidis
Geological Services
BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance
Central Queensland Office, Peak Downs Mine
QLD 4744, Moranbah
Australia
Tel.: (mobile) +61 (0) 458057158
Fax: +61 7 49688163
E-mail: Stavros.Kalaitzidis_(at)_bmacoal.com

WORKING GROUPS

• Peat Petrography
  Convenor: Kimon Christanis, Stavros Kalaitzidis
• Standardization
  Convenor: Walter Pickel, Ivana Sykorova
• Review of New Methodologies and Techniques in Organic Petrology
  Convenor: Lila Gurba
• Temporal Variation of Coals
  Convenor: Lopo Vasconcelos
• Degradinite [Finalized]
  Convenor: Peter Crosdale
• Sample Preparation Techniques
  Convenor: David Pearson
• White Light Illumination
  Convenor: David Pearson
• Petrographic Image Database
  Convenor: Johan Joubert, Trdie Brittz
• Suberinite
  Convenor: Peter Crosdale

EDITORIAL GROUPS

• Coordination of the Handbook Edition (Handbook Editorial Group)
  Petra David, Angeles Gomez-Borrego, Walter Pickel
• Microlithotypes
  Convenors:  Walter Pickel, Monika Wolf, Ed Lester
• Liptinite
  Convenor: Walter Pickel
• Lithotypes (hard coals)
  Convenor: Peter Crosdale, Walter Pickel, Gerd Bieg, Monika Wolf

SERVICES

• Accreditation Programme
  Convenor: Kimon Christanis
• Reflectance Standard Calibration
  Convenors: Dave Pearson, Walter Pickel

MINUTES OF ANNUAL MEETINGS

• Gramado meeting (2009)
• Oviedo meeting (2008)
• Victoria meeting (2007)
• Bandung meeting (2006)
• Patras meeting (2005)
• Budapest meeting (2004)
• Utrecht Meeting (2003)
• Maputo Meeting (2002)
• Copenhagen meeting (2001)
• Rio de Janeiro meeting (2000)

PUBLICATIONS

ICCP (1963, 1971, 1975, 1985, 1993), International Handbook of Coal Petrography

ICCP (1998): The New Vitrinite Classification (ICCP System 1994) - Fuel, 77: 349-358.

ICCP (2001): The New Inertinite Classification (ICCP System 1994) - Fuel, 80: 459-471.

B. KWIECINSKA, H. I. PETERSEN (2004): Graphite, semi-graphite, natural coke, and natural char classification?ICCP system. -Int. J. of Coal Geology, 57, 2: 99-116.

SYKOROVA, I., PICKEL, W., CHRISTANIS, K., WOLF, M., TAYLOR, G.H. & FLORES, D. (2005): Classification of huminite - (ICCP System 1994).- Int. J. of Coal Geology, 62: 85-106. 

ACCREDITATION PROGRAMME

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