This chapter presents a description of some coal fires in northeastern (NE) Pennsylvania (Figure 25.1.1) that encompass the anthracite region in the Valley and Ridge province of the Appalachian Mountains; Figure 25.1.2, Figure 25.1.3, Figure 25.1.4, Figure 25.1.5, Figure 25.1.6, Figure ...
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Coal Fires of Northeastern Pennsylvania Harold J. AurandJr, ... Daniel H. Vice, in Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, 2019 Carbondale, Centralia, and Other Middle Period Coal Fires The coal mine fires in the middle period from approximately 1950 to 2000 illustrate the shift from comp...
The town of Centralia, Pennsylvania is the site of an underground coal mine fire that has been burning since 1962. It is one of thousands of coal mine fires burning in the world today (Melody and Johnston, 2015), which are inconspicuously common anthropogenic disturbances. However, the ...
and added the places one of our staff members had from his recent trip. The activities were all in a large area of Pennsylvania, so we could have gone to any of them. We decided that each day, we would pick a place. Then if we had time, we’d go to the next place. This was ...
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TheUnited Mine Workers(UMW), formed in the 1880s in the Midwest, was successful in its strike against bituminous mines in the Midwest in 1900. However, the union'sstrike against the anthracite mines of Pennsylvaniaturned into a national political crisis in 1902. PresidentTheodore Rooseveltbrokered...
Scottish engineer Sir George Bruce of Carnock opens an advanced coal mine at Culross, Scotland to extract coal from a “moat pit” under the sea on the Firth of Forth. This is one of the first documented commercial underground coal mines. Bruce constructs an artificial loading island into wh...
In coal-mining industries, majority of the emissions are attributed to fuel combustion and energy-related activities, fugitive emissions, emissions from captive power generation, mine fires, land-use change, and from purchased goods and services. The predominance of Scope 1 emissions is because of ...
The first studies of microbial communities in such habitats were carried out by 16S rRNA gene profiling in Centralia in Pennsylvania, USA, in an area of underground coal mine combustion [5,6]. The same object was recently studied by metagenomic methods, and it was shown that bacteria with sma...