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Open Journal of Geology, 2013, 3, 28-32 /10.4236/ojg.2013.31004 Published Online January 2013 (/journal/ojg) Controlling Effects of Surrounding Rock to Coal Seam Gas Occurrence Laibin Wang , Shiwen Zhang , Jinshan Shen , Zhongwen Zhang , Xiaotong Yang 1,2 1 1 1 1 1 College of Earth Environment, Anhui University of Science Technology, Huainan, China Key Laboratory of Mine Geological Hazard Control, Huainan, China Email: lbwang@ 2 Received November 13, 2012; revised December 15, 2012; accepted January 10, 2013 ABSTRACT Surrounding rock of coal seam was one of the important factors to gas occurrence. The coal seam gas occurrence was studied by the index of roof strata thickness or sand content rate; we found that there were certain shortcomings. In or- der to reasonably evaluate the influence of coal seam surrounding rock on gas occurrence in Panji mining area, we quantitatively evaluated the effect of coal seam surrounding rock on gas occurrence by influence coefficient of roof strata thickness, and built six mathematical models of the variational gas content in the mining area which is divided into six gas geological units. The results shows that the coal seam gas content is mainly influenced by 20 m roof strata in each gas geological unit, the gas content presents the tendency of increase, and with the influence coefficient of strata thickness increases, they exist a significant linear relationship. Keywords: Panji Mining Area; Surrounding Rock of Coal Seam; Gas Occurrence; Influence Coefficient of Coal Seam Roof Strata Thickness 1. Introduction surrounding rock on gas occurrence by influence coeffi- cient of roof strata thickness to determine reasonable evaluation of roof thickness values range, and build ma- thematical models between the