Revisiting the South Cañon Number 1 Coal Mine fire during a geologic excursion from Denver to Glenwood Springs, Colorado

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 10, Issue , 2007, Pages 101-110

  Stracher, Glenn B ^a   Lindsley Griffin, Nancy ^b   Griffin, John R ^b   Renner, Steven ^c   Schroeder, Paul ^d   Viellenave, James H ^e   Masalehdani, M Naze Nancy ^f   Kuenzer, Claudia ^g  

^a EAST GEORGIA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c Inactive Mines Program ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e Pinyon Environmental Engineering Resources   (United States)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coal fires; Coal fire gas; Coal fire pollution; Coal mine subsidence; Gas vent minerals; South Ca on Number 1 Coal Mine

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; COAL GAS; COAL MINES; FELDSPAR; GYPSUM; KETONES; MINE FIRES; PARAFFINS; POLLUTION; SUBSIDENCE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; VENTS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

COAL FIRES; CONTROL PROCEDURES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; GAS VENTS; MINE SUBSIDENCES; MONITORING THE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE MANIFESTATIONS; UNDERGROUND WORKING;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 84961966778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.fld010(06)     Document Type: Article

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