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Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective
Volume 3: Case Studies – Coal Fires
A detailed examination of specific coal fires chronicled in a number of locations around the world
Glenn B. Stracher (Edited by), Anupma Prakash (Edited by), Ellina V. Sokol (Edited by)
9780444595096, Elsevier Science
Hardback, published 25 November 2014
816 pages
27.8 x 21 x 4.1 cm, 1.73 kg
"This is the first of four volumes devoted to what might seem like a narrow topic, and yet coal and peat fires involve a confluence of subjects and hold substantial interest for a wide and international audience of scientists and engineers as well as students and the general public. Coverage of the socioeconomic and geoenvironmental impacts as well as the technical aspects of mining and the catastrophic fires themselves make this text suitable for fire, environmental, and remote sensing scientists as well as petrologists, coal geologists, and geophysicists; industry personnel; and anyone interested in pollution and the by-products of combustion." --Reference and Research Book News, February 2013 "Volume 2 of this encyclopedic work (Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective) has recently been published by Elsevier. This 554 page volume contains 24 chapters describing fires in 23 countries. The informative discussions are beautifully enhanced with more than 1100 illustrations, most in full color! Associated with this tome is an extraordinary array of on-line photographs, movies, radio talk show discussions, slide presentations, etc. related to coal and peat fires. This volume is not only an important scientific contribution and a work of art but it is what every scholarly book should be - a total sensory immersion into a fascinating topic." --Dr. Robert B. Finkelman, Research Professor in the Dept. of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Dallas and an Adjunct Professor at the China University of Geosciences, Beijing "This is one of the most comprehensive books ever published on the important topic of coal and peat fires…This major work has the following key features which make it very interesting for the target groups identified above: Integrates pioneering coal-fires research, with topical coverage of remote sensing, policy-making, and more; Contains hundreds of full-color, high-quality images, tables, figures, and diagrams, with many web and literature references, making it a single source for all researchers/managers; Serves as an essential guide to the socioeconomic and geo-environmental impacts of coal fires around the World. This book deserves a place in every university library as well as in the library of research institutes, and on the bookshelf of managers/decision makers concerned with global change and the environment." --International Journal of Digital Earth
Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volumes 1–4, presents a fascinating collection of research about prehistoric and historic coal and peat fires. Magnificent illustrations of fires and research findings from countries around the world are featured—a totally new contribution to science. This third of four volumes in the collection, Coal Fires – Case Studies, examines in detail specific coal fires chronicled in a number of locations around the world including Brazil, the Czech Republic, Germany, Malawi, Poland, Russia, Spain, Tajikistan, the United States, Venezuela, and others.
Volume 3: Case Studies -- Coal Fires 1. Spontaneous Combustion in Open-Cut Coal Mines: Australian Experience and Research 2. Nanominerals and Ultrafine Particles from Brazilian Coal Fires 3. Remote and In Situ Mapping of Coal Fires: Case Studies from China and India 4. Coal Combustion and Mineralization in the Helen Shan Mountains of Northern China 5. Mineralogy of Burning-Coal Waste Piles in Collieries of the Czech Republic 6. Combustion Metamorphism in the Most Basin, Czech Republic 7. Mineralogy of the Burning Anna I Coal-Mine Dump, Alsdorf, Germany 8. Geothermal Utilization of Smoldering Mining Dumps 9. Impact of Mining Activites on Land Use Land Cover in the Jharia Coalfield, India 10. Stone-Tool Workshops of the Hatrurim Basin, Israel: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Rock Mechanics of Lithic Industrial Materials 11. Geophysics of Pyrometamorphic and Hydrothermal Rocks of the Nabi Musa Mottled Zone, Vicinity of the Dead Sea Transform, Israel 12. Preliminary Assessment of the Coal Fires of Malawi 13. Fire Prevention in Coal-Waste Dumps: Exemplified by the Rymer Cones, Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland 14. Thermal Transformations of Waste Rock at the Starzykowiec Coal- Waste Dump, Poland 15. The Thermal History of Select Coal-Waste Dumps in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland 16. Coal Mining and Combustion in the Coal-Waste Dumps of Poland 17. Mineral Transformations and Actinide Transport: Combustion Metamorphism in the Wojkowice Coal-Waste Dump, Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland 18. Mineralogy and Magnetic Parameters of Materials Resulting from the Mining and Consumption of Coal from the Douro Coalfield, Northwest Portugal 19. Ancient Coal Fires on the Southwestern Periphery of the Kuznetsk Basin, West Siberia, Russia: Geology and Geochronology 20. Ellestadite-Group Minerals in Combustion Metamorphic Rocks 21. Fayalite from Paralavas Associated with Natural Coal Fires: Combustion Metamorphic Complexes in the Kuznetsk Coal Basin,Russia 22. Mineralogy and Origin of Fayalite-Sekaninaite Paralava: Ravat Coal Fire, Central Tajikistan 23. The "Volcanoes" of Midwestern Venezuela 24. Coal-Fire Hazard Mapping in High-Latitude Coal Basins: A Case Study from Interior Alaska 25. Anthracite Coal-Mine Fires of Northeastern Pennsylvania 26. Historic Record of Coal Fires in the Richmond Basin, Virginia 27. Coal Fires of the Pacific Northwet, USA 28. Combustion Mineralogy and Petrology of Oil-Shale Slags, Lapanouse, Sévérac-le-Château, Aveyron, France: Analogies with Hydrocarbon-Fires 29. A Review of Coal-Fire Sampling Methods
Subject Areas: Fossil fuel technologies [THF], Geology & the lithosphere [RBG]
