| Description |
1 online resource (293 pages) |
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Environmental research advances |
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Environmental research advances series.
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| Contents |
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF MOUNTAIN TOP MINES AND VALLEY FILLS ON STREAM ECOSYSTEMS IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA -- ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF MOUNTAIN TOP MINES AND VALLEY FILLS ON STREAM ECOSYSTEMS IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: THE EFFECTS OF MOUNTAINTOP MINES AND VALLEY FILLS ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS OF THE CENTRAL APPALACHIAN COALFIELDS -- ABSTRACT -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS -- FOREWORD -- 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- 2. INTRODUCTION -- 3. LOSS OF HEADWATER RESOURCES |
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4. IMPACTS ON WATER QUALITY5. AQUATIC TOXICITY TESTS -- 6. IMPACTS ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS -- 7. RECLAMATION, MITIGATION, AND RECOVERY -- 8. SUMMARY, INFORMATION GAPS AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES -- APPENDIX A. LITERATURE SEARCHES -- APPENDIX B. REGULATORY ISSUES RELATED TO MTM-VF OPERATIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: MOUNTAINTOP MINING: BACKGROUND ON CURRENT CONTROVERSIES -- SUMMARY -- WHAT IS MOUNTAINTOP MINING? -- CRITICISM AND LEGAL CHALLENGES TO MOUNTAINTOP MINING -- ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS AND CONGRESSIONAL ACTIVITY -- INDEX |
| Summary |
This book assesses the state of the science on the environmental impacts of mountaintop mines and valley fills (MTM-VF) on streams in the Central Appalachian Coalfields. These coalfields cover about 48,000 square kilometers (12 million acres) in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee, USA. This book focuses on the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining, which, as its name suggests, involves removing all-or some portion-of the top of a mountain or ridge to expose and mine one or more coal seams. The excess overburden is disposed of in constructed fills in small valleys or hollows |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2013) |
| Subject |
Ecology -- Appalachian Region
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Stream ecology -- Appalachian Region
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Ecology
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Stream ecology
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Appalachian Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wagner, Julian M
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| ISBN |
9781629480978 |
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1629480975 |
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