Soil armouring, sediment yield, and acid mine drainage from steep slopes under high intensity rainfall in the West Coast of New Zealand

2007 ASABE Annual International Meeting, Technical Papers

Volumn 3 BOOK, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Cochrane, Thomas A ^a,b   Jack, Gareth ^c   Weber, Paul ^d  

^a ASABE ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c Partie Delamore Partners Ltd   (New Zealand)

^d Solid Energy New Zealand Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Armouring; Erosion; Mining; Sediment yield

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ARMOURING; SOIL ARMOURING;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EROSION; FLY ASH; GRANITE; INFILTRATION; OXYGEN; RAIN; SEDIMENTS;

SOILS;

EID: 35748932030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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