| Description |
1 online resource (293 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Environmental research advances
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Environmental research advances series.
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| Note |
Includes 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ecology -- Appalachian Region.
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Ecology. |
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Appalachian Region. |
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Stream ecology -- Appalachian Region.
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Stream ecology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wagner, Julian M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wagner, Julian M. Environmental Impacts of Mountaintop Mines and Valley Fills on Stream Ecosystems in Central Appalachia. Hauppauge : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., ©1900 9781629480961 |
| ISBN |
9781629480978 (electronic book) |
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1629480975 (electronic book) |
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9781629480961 |
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