Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective

<p>Volume 1: Coal -- Geology and Combustion</p> <p>1. Coal Formation and the Origin of Coal Fires (A.G. Kim). </p> <p>2. Coal-Mining Techniques and Coal Fires (S.R. Michalski). </p> <p>3. Spontaneous Combustion and Coal Petrology (M. Mastalerz, A. Drobniak, J.C. Hower, and J.M.K. O’Keefe). </p> <p>4. Coal and Ancient Man: Cremation at the Tschudi Burn, Chan Chan, Northern Peru (W.E. Brooks, C. Galvez Mora, J.C. Jackson, J.P. McGeehin, and D.G. Hood). </p> <p>5. Geotechnical and Environmental Problems: Coal and Spontaneous Combustion (L.J. Donnelly, and F.G. Bell). </p> <p>6. The Effects of Global-Coal Fires (G.B. Stracher, and T.P. Taylor). </p> <p>7. Environmental and Health Impacts of Coal Fires (R.B. Finkelman, and G.B. Stracher). </p> <p>8. Coal-Fire Gas Chromatography (T.R. Blake, and S. Meinardi, and D.R. Blake). </p> <p>9. Gas Vent Mineralization and Coal Combustion (G.B. Stracher). </p> <p>10. Sample Identification and Imaging of Gas-Vent Mineral Assemblages (P.A. Schroeder, C. Fleisher, and G.B. Stracher). </p> <p>11. Semivolatile Hydrocarbon Residues of Coal and Coal Tar (S.D. Emsbo-Mattingly, and S.A. Stout). </p> <p>12. Magnetic Signatures of Rocks and Soils Affected by Burning Coal Seams (R.S. Sternberg). </p> <p>13. Historical Use of Airborne Thermal Infrared Imaging for Detecting and Studying Coal Fires (D.H. Vice). </p> <p>14. Remote Sensing of Coal Fires (A. Prakash, and R. Gens). </p> <p>15. The Policy Setting for Coal Fires: Indicators for Government Action (K.M. McCurdy). </p> <p>16. United States Bureau of Mines – Study and Control of Fires in Abandoned Mines and Waste Banks (A.G. Kim). </p> <p>17. Smouldering-Combustion Phenomena and Coal Fires (G. Rein). </p> <p>18. Burning and Suppression of Smouldering Coal Fires (R. Hadden, and G. Rein). </p> <p>19. Modern-Foam-Injection Technology for Extinguishing Coal Fires (L. LaFosse, and M. Cummins)</p>