Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective

Anupma Prakash is Professor of Geophysics (Remote Sensing) at the Department of Geosciences and the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. After receiving her M.Sc. degree in Geology from Lucknow University, India, and a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology - Roorkee, India, she moved to the Netherlands to work for the International Institute of Geo-information Surveys and Earth Sciences (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands. She is internationally recognized for her research on the use of remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) techniques for investigating surface and underground coal mine fires. Her coal fire research involves fire detection, mapping, monitoring, depth estimation, characterization and quantitative estimation of environmental impacts.

Volume 3: Case Studies -- Coal Fires 1. Spontaneous Combustion in Open-Cut Coal Mines: Australian Experience and Research 2. Nanominerals and Ultrafine Particles from Brazilian Coal Fires 3. Remote and In Situ Mapping of Coal Fires: Case Studies from China and India 4. Coal Combustion and Mineralization in the Helen Shan Mountains of Northern China 5. Mineralogy of Burning-Coal Waste Piles in Collieries of the Czech Republic 6. Combustion Metamorphism in the Most Basin, Czech Republic 7. Mineralogy of the Burning Anna I Coal-Mine Dump, Alsdorf, Germany 8. Geothermal Utilization of Smoldering Mining Dumps 9. Impact of Mining Activites on Land Use Land Cover in the Jharia Coalfield, India 10. Stone-Tool Workshops of the Hatrurim Basin, Israel: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Rock Mechanics of Lithic Industrial Materials 11. Geophysics of Pyrometamorphic and Hydrothermal Rocks of the Nabi Musa Mottled Zone, Vicinity of the Dead Sea Transform, Israel 12. Preliminary Assessment of the Coal Fires of Malawi 13. Fire Prevention in Coal-Waste Dumps: Exemplified by the Rymer Cones, Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland 14. Thermal Transformations of Waste Rock at the Starzykowiec Coal- Waste Dump, Poland 15. The Thermal History of Select Coal-Waste Dumps in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland 16. Coal Mining and Combustion in the Coal-Waste Dumps of Poland 17. Mineral Transformations and Actinide Transport: Combustion Metamorphism in the Wojkowice Coal-Waste Dump, Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland 18. Mineralogy and Magnetic Parameters of Materials Resulting from the Mining and Consumption of Coal from the Douro Coalfield, Northwest Portugal 19. Ancient Coal Fires on the Southwestern Periphery of the Kuznetsk Basin, West Siberia, Russia: Geology and Geochronology 20. Ellestadite-Group Minerals in Combustion Metamorphic Rocks 21. Fayalite from Paralavas Associated with Natural Coal Fires: Combustion Metamorphic Complexes in the Kuznetsk Coal Basin,Russia 22. Mineralogy and