简评《地质辞典》中的“煤层气”词条

A brief review on the phrase “coalbed methane” in 《Dictionary of Geology》publishedby geology press in 1986

简要评述了《地质辞典》中“煤层气”词条释义方面存在的谬误 ;指出该词条作者不仅没有给读者任何正确、有用的信息 ,更为严重的是对煤层气资源工业价值的否定性评价阻碍了我国煤层气的研究、勘探开发进程。因此《地质辞典》再版时 ,应对煤层气词条进行全面修订 ,以免继续误导读者。

Only more than twenty years has coalbed gas,which mainly consists of methane and also called as coalbed methane (CBM),been recognized as an emerging unconventional natural gas resource.Cualbed gas is generated as a result of coalification process and stored in coal bed itself.Based mainly on the analyses of literature contributed to the branch science of geology before 1986,a brief review on the expositional falsehood for the phrase “coalbed methane” explained by the author of 《Dictionary of Geology》is given in this paper,and point out that,the reader was not given any correct and useful information by the phrase author;especially,a negative estimation of its industrial and commercial value had impeded the progress in research,exploration and development of coalbed methane in China.So that,the explanation of the phrase “coalbed methane” is in need of revision when republishing the dictionary.