The Krueng Antjong (also Kr. Antjong, modern Krueng Antong or Sungai Antong) is a river of the West coast of Atjeh whose coal seams are recorded in Zwierzycki’s 1922 inventory of Sumatran coal localities (No. 17) and reproduced in Van Bemmelen’s *Geology of Indonesia* (1949). The Krueng Antjong locality is one of the four Neogene-coal localities of the West-Atjeh coast.
The 1922 Zwierzycki observation
Zwierzycki’s 1922 entry for the Krueng Antjong locality, as reproduced by Van Bemmelen, records “3 seams of 2–5 ft”. The locality is cited in the standard form “ZWIERZYCKI, 1922, p. 161” and is assigned to the Neogene series of Atjeh coals. The three seams, ranging from 2 to 5 ft in thickness, indicate a coal-bearing sequence of moderate aggregate thickness, less substantial than the five seams of 2–9 ft at the Krueng Raja (No. 16) but more substantial than the “very thin seams” of the Paleogene localities.
Place in the Atjeh coal record
For the wider context of the West-Atjeh coal localities, see the entries on Krueng Raja and Krueng Kluet. The Krueng Antjong locality is one of the four West-Atjeh Neogene-coal localities in Zwierzycki’s consolidated inventory, alongside the Krueng Raja (No. 16), East of Peureu Moue (No. 18) and Near Simpane Peust (No. 19).
See Also
- Acheh
- Atjeh’s Westkust
- Coal in Atjeh
- J. Zwierzycki
- Krueng Kluet
- Krueng Raja
- Krueng Teunom
- Van Bemmelen’s The Geology of Indonesia (1949)
- 1922
Source
The Geology of Indonesia, by R. W. van Bemmelen, Vol. II: Economic Geology (The Hague: Government Printing Office; Martinus Nijhoff, 1949), p. 49 (Table 13, coal localities of Sumatra, No. 17).