A fifty year overview of mined land reclamation research in the Appalachian coalfields, USA
Surface coal mining has been a widespread disturbance in the central Appalachian (Kentucky,Tennessee,Virginia and West Virginia) coalfields since the late 1940s and early mining practices were largely unregulated,resulting in significant impacts to post-mining land use potentials and water quality.Early mined land reclamation research in the 1960s and 1970s for this region was led by West Virginia University,including development of Acid-BaseAccounting (ABA) to predict the acid forming potential of overburden.The effort to develop,test and refine ABA was led by R.M.Smith and other researchers at West Virginia University (Skousen et al.2000),and they continue to validate ABA interpretations today.The first detailed work on the description and classification of Appalachian mine soils was published by Sencindiver in 1974and is summarized in Barnhisel et al.(2000).Parallel work on the importance of paleoenvironmental interpretation of overburden rock units for ABA prediction and fundamental work on acid drainage chemistry was conducted by Caruccio et al.(1993)from the University of South Carolina and their work is also summarized in Barnhisel et al.(2000).
W.L.Daniels
Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
国际会议
北京
英文
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2014-10-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）