Environmental impacts of coal combustion residuals: current understanding and future perspectives

A Deonarine, GE Schwartz, LS Ruhl - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
On-site solid-waste impoundments, landfills, and receiving water bodies have served as
long-term disposal sites for coal combustion residuals (CCRs) across the United States for …

Emergent role of critical interfaces in the dynamics of intensively managed landscapes

P Kumar, A Anders, E Bauer, NE Blair, M Cain… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Complex interactions among water, dissolved and suspended material, and gases occur
within the critical zone. These interactions depend upon and influence geologic and …

The human impact on North American erosion, sediment transfer, and storage in a geologic context

DB Kemp, PM Sadler, V Vanacker - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Humans are primary agents of geomorphic change, and rates of anthropogenic landscape
change likely far exceed the pace of change expected from natural geologic processes …

Rates of historical anthropogenic soil erosion in the midwestern United States

EA Thaler, JS Kwang, BJ Quirk, CL Quarrier… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Erosion degrades soils, reduces crop yields, and diminishes ecosystem services. The total
amount of soil that has been eroded since the initiation of farming is unknown in most …

The human impact in geomorphology–50 years of change

A Goudie - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
Concern with the human impact in Geomorphology has a long history. What is new is that
since 1969 a number of developments have taken place that have led to an increasing …

Evidence for unmonitored coal ash spills in Sutton Lake, North Carolina: Implications for contamination of lake ecosystems

A Vengosh, EA Cowan, RM Coyte, AJ Kondash… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Coal combustion residuals (CCRs, also known as “coal ash”) contain high concentrations of
toxic and carcinogenic elements that can pose ecological and human health risks upon their …

Critical transition in critical zone of intensively managed landscapes

P Kumar, PVV Le, ANT Papanicolaou, BL Rhoads… - Anthropocene, 2018 - Elsevier
Expansion and intensification of managed landscapes for agriculture have resulted in
severe unintended global impacts, including degradation of arable land and eutrophication …

Meandering rivers that anabranch in the upper Midwest (USA): Prevalence, morphological characteristics, and power regimes

T Shukla, BL Rhoads - Geomorphology, 2023 - Elsevier
Channel planform is the result of present and past hydrologic, sedimentary, and geologic
conditions, and represents an adjustment of fluvial systems to these conditions. An important …

Role of coal ash morphology and composition in delivery and transport of trace metals in the aquatic environment

EA Cowan, Z Wang, SA Brachfeld, SJ Hageman… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Fly ash is predominately the inorganic byproduct of coal combustion for electrical power
generation. It is composed of aluminosilicates with Fe, Mg, K, and Ca forming submicron to …

Maghemite quantification and magnetic signature of Brazilian soils with contrasting parent materials

GC Poggere, AV Inda, V Barrón, N Kämpf… - Applied Clay …, 2018 - Elsevier
Maghemite (Mh) is a ferrimagnetic mineral that governs magnetism in the clay fraction,
especially in well weathered soils from tropical and subtropical regions. In this work, we …