Mapping of soil nutrients in an abandoned Chinese coal mine and waste disposal site

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 627-635

  Komnitsas, Kostas ^a   Guo, Xiangyun ^b   Li, Daoliang ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Opencast coal mining; Soil nutrients; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT SITES; AVAILABLE PHOSPHORUS; CHINESE COAL MINE; CO-DISPOSAL; COAL MINING; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOSTATISTICAL APPROACH; HIGH-CONTENT; NUGGET-EFFECT; OPENCAST COAL MINE; ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL NUTRIENTS; SOIL SAMPLE; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; WASTE DISPOSAL SITES;

COAL; COAL INDUSTRY; COAL MINES; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; REVEGETATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 77953325320     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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