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Table of Contents - Reviews in Engineering Geology (REG018)

Geology of Coal Fires: Case Studies from Around the World

edited by Glenn B. Stracher


Preface v
Acknowledgments vii
Illustrations of coal fires ix

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION AND GREENHOUSE GASES
1. Greenhouse gases generated in underground coal-mine fires
Ann G. Kim
1
2. The spontaneous combustion index and its application: Past, present, and future
Sezer Uludağ
15
3. Geological models of spontaneous combustion in the Wuda coalfield, Inner Mongolia, China
Daiyong Cao, Xinjie Fan, Haiyan Guan, Chacha Wua, Xiaolei Shi, and Yuerong Jia
23
4. Survey of experimental work on the self-heating and spontaneous combustion of coal
Mark Nelson and Xiao Dong Chen
31
5. A laboratory study of a reactive surface layer for the prevention of spontaneous combustion
Rufaro Kaitano, David Glasser, and Diane Hildebrandt
85

MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY
6. The origin of gas-vent minerals: Isochemical and mass-transfer processes
Glenn B. Stracher
91
7. Combustion metamorphic events resulting from natural coal fires
Ellina V. Sokol and Nina I. Volkova
97
8. Mineralogy and petrography of iron-rich slags and paralavas formed by spontaneous coal combustion, Rotowaro coalfield, North Island, New Zealand
M. Naze-Nancy Masalehdani, Philippa M. Black, and Huldrych W. Kobe
117
9. Paralavas in a combustion metamorphic complex: Hatrurim Basin, Israel
Yevgeny Vapnik, Victor V. Sharygin, Ella V. Sokol, and Reginald Shagam
133
10. Geochronology of clinker and implications for evolution of the Powder River Basin landscape, Wyoming and Montana
Edward L. Heffern, Peter W. Reiners, Charles W. Naeser, and Donald A. Coates
155

GEOPHYSICS—MODELING
11. Possible sources of magnetic anomalies over thermally metamorphosed carbonate rocks of the Mottled Zone in Israel
Boris Khesin, Shimon Feinstein, and Sophia Itkis
177
12. Detecting concealed coal fires
Hartwig Gielisch
199
13. Subsurface coal-mine fires: Laboratory simulation, numerical modeling, and depth estimation
Anupma Prakash and Antony R. Berthelote
211

GEOPHYSICS—REMOTE SENSING
14. Remotely sensed land-cover changes in the Wuda and Ruqigou-Gulaben coal-mining areas of China
Claudia Kuenzer, Jianzhong Zhang, Stefan Voigt, and Wolfgang Wagner
219
15. Remote-sensing–based coal-fire detection with low-resolution MODIS data
Christoph Hecker, Claudia Kuenzer, and Jianzhong Zhang
229
16. Application of remote sensing in coal-fire studies and coal-fire–related emissions
Prasun K. Gangopadhyay
239
17. Three-dimensional thermal-imaging methodology for detecting underground coal fires
Zhang Jianmin, Huan Zhongdan, Sun Yujing, Tian Yuan, Stefan Voigt, and Zhao Xuejun
249

COAL FIRES AND PUBLIC POLICY
18. Comparison of Pennsylvania anthracite mine fires: Centralia and Laurel Run
Melissa A. Nolter, Daniel H. Vice, and Harold Aurand Jr.
261
19. Congressional response to coal fires: Illustrating transitions in the policy process
Karen M. McCurdy
271
Index 279