Record Details
Mountaintop Mining Consequences
DigitalCommons@USU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Mountaintop Mining Consequences |
| Creator | Palmer, M. A. Bernhardt, E. S. Schlesinger, W. H. Eshleman, k. N. Foufoula-Georgiou, E. Hendryx, M. S. Lemly, A. D. Likens, G. E. Loucks, O. L. Power, M. E. With, P. S. Wilcock, Peter |
| Description | There has been a global, 30-year increase in surface mining (1), which is now the dominant driver of land-use change in the central Appalachian ecoregion of the United States (2). One major form of such mining, mountaintop mining with valley fills (MTM/VF) (3), is widespread throughout eastern Kentucky, West Virginia (WV), and southwestern Virginia. Upper elevation forests are cleared and stripped of topsoil, and explosives are used to break up rocks to access buried coal (fig. S1). Excess... |
| Date | 2010-01-01T08:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/614 info:doi/10.1126/science.1180543 |
| Source | Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Subject | mining Mountaintop mining consequences |
