CONTENTS
Preface v
Acknowledgmentsvii
Illustrations of coal firesix
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION AND GREENHOUSE GASES
Greenhouse gases generated in underground coal-mine fires1
Ann G. Kim
The spontaneous combustion index and its application: Past, present, and future 15
Sezer Uludag
Geological models of spontaneous combustion in the Wuda coalfield, 23
Inner Mongolia, China
Daiyong Cao, Xinjie Fan, Haiyan Guan, Chacha Wua, Xiaolei Shi, and Yuerong Jia
Survey of experimental work on the self-heating and spontaneous combustion of coal 31
Mark Nelson and Xiao Dong Chen
A laboratory study of a reactive surface layer for the prevention of spontaneous combustion 85
Rufaro Kaitano, David Glasser, and Diane Hildebrandt
MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY
The origin of gas-vent minerals: Isochemical and mass-transfer processes 91
Glenn B. Stracher
Combustion metamorphic events resulting from natural coal fires 97
Ellina V. Sokol and Nina I. Volkova
Mineralogy and petrography of iron-rich slags and paralavas formed by 117
spontaneous coal combustion, Rotowaro coalfield, North Island, New Zealand
M. Naze-Nancy Masalehdani, Philippa M. Black, andHuldrych W. Kobe
Paralavas in a combustion metamorphic complex: Hatrurim Basin, Israel 133
Yevgeny Vapnik, Victor V. Sharygin, Ella V. Sokol, and Reginald Shagam
Geochronology of clinker and implications for evolution of the Powder River Basin 155
landscape, Wyoming and Montana
Edward L. Heffern, Peter W. Reiners, Charles W. Naeser, and Donald A. Coates
GEOPHYSICS—MODELING
Possible sources of magnetic anomalies over thermally metamorphosed 177
carbonate rocks of the Mottled Zone in Israel
Boris Khesin, Shimon Feinstein, and Sophia Itkis
Detecting concealed coal fires 199
Hartwig Gielisch
Subsurface coal-mine fires: Laboratory simulation, numerical modeling, 211
and depth estimation
Anupma Prakash and Antony R. Berthelote GEOPHYSICS—REMOTE SENSING
Remotely sensed land-cover changes in the Wuda and Ruqigou-Gulaben coal-mining 219
areas of China
Claudia Kuenzer, Jianzhong Zhang, Stefan Voigt, and Wolfgang Wagner
Remote-sensing-based coal-fire detection with low-resolution MODIS data 229
Christoph Hecker, Claudia Kuenzer, and Jianzhong Zhang
Application of remote sensing in coal-fire studies and coal-fire-related emissions 239
Prasun K. Gangopadhyay
Three-dimensional thermal-imaging methodology for detecting underground coal fires 249
Zhang Jianmin, Huan Zhongdan, Sun Yujing, Tian Yuan, Stefan Voigt, and Zhao Xuejun
COAL FIRES AND PUBLIC POLICY
Comparison of Pennsylvania anthracite mine fires: Centralia and Laurel Run 261
Melissa A. Nolter, Daniel H. Vice, and Harold Aurand Jr.
Congressional response to coal fires: Illustrating transitions in the policy process 271
Karen M. McCurdy
Index 279