A full-color multimedia guide to the geological research and environmental implications of coal and peat fires.
Volume 2: Photographs and Multimedia Tours 1. Bowen Basin and
Hunter Valley, Australia--Stuart J. Day 2. Fire Mountain and Mud
Volcanoes of Azerbaijan--Yevgeny Vapnik 3. Spontaneous Combustion
of Canadian Coals--Hamed Sanei , Jesse Carrie , Fari Goodarzi 4.
Wuda and Ruqigou Coalfield Fires of Northern China--Glenn B.
Stracher, Claudia Kuenzer, Christoph Hecker, Jianzhong Zhang, Paul
A. Schroeder, John K. McCormack 5. Clinker at El Cerrejón Coal
Mine, Colombia: Characteristics and Potential Uses--Jhon A.
Quintero, Carlos A. Ríos, Glenn B. Stracher 6. Czech
Republic--Zdenek Klika, Peter Martinec 7. Combustion at Dorset,
Wessex Coast of Southern England--Yevgeny Vapnik 8. Coal Fires of
Northern and Massif Central, France--M. Naze-Nancy Masalehdani,
Yves Paquette 9. The Burning Anna-I Coal Mine Dump, Germany--Frank
de Wit, Thomas Witzke, Günter Blaß, Uwe Kolitsch 10. India--Anupma
Prakash, Sheochand Prasad, Ashwani Raju 11. Indonesian Coal Fires
of East Kalimantan, Borneo--Glenn B. Stracher, Alfred E.
Whitehouse, Asep A. S. Mulyana, Paul A. Schroeder, John K.
McCormack 12. Combustion Metamorphic "Bifacial Stone Tool
Workshop," Har Parsa, Hatrurim Basin, Israel--Yevgeny Vapnik, Jacob
Vardi 13. The Peat Fires of Italy--Giovanni Martinelli, Stefano
Cremonini, Eleonora Samonati 14. Mud Volcanism and Gas Combustion
in the Yli Depression, Southeastern Kazakhstan--Ilia L. Fishman,
Yuliya I. Kazakova, Ellina V. Sokol, Glenn B. Stracher, Svetlana N.
Kokh, Oleg P. Polyansky, Yevgeny Vapnik, Yelena White, Kalik O.
Bajadilov 15. Coal-Waste Dump Fires of Poland--Magdalena
Misz-Kennan, Justyna Ciesielczuk, Adam Tabor 16. The Douro
Coalfield Fires of Portugal--Joana Ribeiro, Rui Moura, Deolinda
Flores, Duarte B. Lopes, Carlos Gouveia, Sérgio Mendonça, Orlando
Frazão 17. Paleo-Coal Fires in the Western Dacic Basin,
Romania--Sorin-Corneliu Radan, Silviu Radan 18. Ancient Coal Fires,
Combustion Metamorphic Rocks, and Minerals from the Kuznetsk Coal
Basin, West Siberia, Russia--Sophia A. Korzhova, Victor V.
Sharygin, Igor S. Sharygin, Svetlana N. Kokh, Ellina V. Sokol,
Ekaterina A. Simonova, Andrei A. Peturov 19. Russian Peat
Fires--Tatiana Minaeva, Andrey Sirin 20. Self-Sustained Smoldering
Combustion of a Coal Waste Heap in Scotland--Keith W. Torrance,
Guillermo Rein, Christine Switzer, Rory Hadden, Claire M. Belcher,
Ricky Carvel 21. Witbank and Free State Coalfield Fires of South
Africa--Glenn B. Stracher, Robert B. Finkelman, Paul A. Schroeder,
John K. McCormack, Denis Pone, Harold Annegarn 22. Las Tablas de
Daimiel National Park and Guadiana River Peat Fires of Spain--Luis
Moreno, M. Emilia Jiménez 23. United States Coal Fires--Glenn B.
Stracher, Mark Engle, James C. Hower, Anupma Prakash, Russell H.
Bartley, Sylvia Bartley, Paul A. Schroeder, Nan Lindsley-Griffin,
John Styers, Melissa A. Barnes (Nolter), Edward L. Heffern 24. La
Cuesta, Lobatera, and Paso Diablo Coal Fires of Venezuela--Manuel
Martínez, Gonzalo Márquez
Online Chapters Multimedia Materials Gas and Field Data Repository
Dr. Glenn B. Stracher is Professor Emeritus of Geology and Physics
at East Georgia State College, University System of Georgia,
Swainsboro, Georgia, USA. After receiving his M.S. in Geology and a
Ph.D. in Geology and Engineering Mechanics from the University of
Nebraska, he served as a Lady Davis Scholar at the Institute of
Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He was also
nominated by the United Nations as a Fulbright Scholar while in
graduate school before completing his postdoctoral work in Israel.
Dr. Stracher is the former chair of the Geological Society of
America’s Coal Geology Division and served on the society’s
External Awards Committee. He is the co-author of three chemical
thermodynamics books, published in English and Japanese and taught
graduate level courses in this subject at the Georgia Institute of
Technology in Atlanta. In 2010, he was named a University System of
Georgia “Shining Star, by the state’s Board of Regents, for
excellence in research and teaching. In 2015, he was named a
Geological Society of America Fellow for his contributions to
coal-fires science.
Trained as a structural geologist, mineralogist, and metamorphic
petrologist, the main focus of his research since 1995; and for
which he is internationally known, is coal fires burning around the
world. In addition to numerous peer-reviewed publications about
coal fires, he has convened coal-fires symposia with the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological
Society of America (GSA), and led four GSA National coal-fires
field trips. Dr. Stracher is the editor of the Geological Society
of America book, Geology of Coal Fires: Case Studies from Around
the World. He also edited the International Journal of Coal Geology
special publication, Coal Fires Burning Around the World: A Global
Catastrophe.
His latest project is a four-volume book published by Elsevier and
entitled Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective
http://www.elsevierdirect.com/brochures/coalpeatfires/index.html
The China University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou, Jiangsu,
has invited him to teach short courses about coal and peat fires
using this four-volume book. He has also received an invitation to
visit and do research at Tianjin University in China.
Dr. Stracher appears in two National Geographic Channel (NGC)
movies about coal-fires: Wild Fires, part of a seven part NGC
series entitled Built for Destruction, and the more recent movie,
Underground Inferno, that has won several international
film-festival awards. Currently, he is working with historian Timo
Hauge at the German Mining Museum in Bochum, Germany, on a
permanent display about mine fires. The display in the 37,000
square foot museum will open in 2018 and feature much of Dr.
Stracher’s work, as well as photos taken by Glenn and Janet
Stracher during their numerous field expeditions. The German Mining
Museum is the most famous mining museum in the world. The web
address of the museum is:
http://www.bergbaumuseum.de/index.php/en.
Dr. Glenn B. Stracher and his wife, Janet, were recently the guests
of four universities in China, where Dr. Stracher gave six
presentations. In addition to the 2,000 page, four-volume book Dr.
Stracher published with Elsevier, entitled Coal and Peat Fires: A
Global Perspective, he recently signed a contract with the company
to publish a fifth volume entitled Coal and Peat Fires: New Global
Perspectives. The latest work is scheduled for publication late in
2017 or 2018. The fifth volume will include contributions from
engineers and scientists in China. The Strachers have been invited
to return to China at a later date, where Dr. Stracher would serve
as a visiting professor at the China University of Mining and
Technology and the Xi’an University of Science and Technology.
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. Ellina Sokol
is a distinguished research scientist at the Institute of Geology
and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of
Sciences in Novosibirsk, Siberia.
"This is the first of four volumes devoted to what might seem like a narrow topic, and yet coal and peat fires involve a confluence of subjects and hold substantial interest for a wide and international audience of scientists and engineers as well as students and the general public. Coverage of the socioeconomic and geoenvironmental impacts as well as the technical aspects of mining and the catastrophic fires themselves make this text suitable for fire, environmental, and remote sensing scientists as well as petrologists, coal geologists, and geophysicists; industry personnel; and anyone interested in pollution and the by-products of combustion."--Reference and Research Book News, February 2013
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