Use of an environmentally realistic laboratory test organism and field bioassessments to determine the potential impacts of active coal mining in the Dumps Creek subwatershed on the Clinch River, Virginia
This research was divided into four objectives for assessing the impacts of coal mining on ecosystem health. The first objective was to provide an ecotoxicological assessment in the upper Clinch River using standard bioassessment techniques. Analysis of sediments and interstitial water (porewater) i...
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Virginia Tech
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77326 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03242011-125916/ |