Bibliography
Bacqué, Peter. "Elevated Radioactivity Levels Found in North Anna Well." Richmond Times-Dispatch. February 22, 2012. Accessed July 18, 2016. http://www.richmond.com/business/article_6bd5b666-c2df-5b9d-869a-13e09db78e98.html.
Bird, Samuel O. 1997. Virginia's Coal Ages. Government Report, Dept. of Mines, Minerals, and Energy, Commonweath of Virginia, Division of Mineral Resources.
Beerling, D. J., F. I. Woodward, M. R. Lomas, M. A. Wills, W. P. Quick, and P. J. Valdes. "The Influence of Carboniferous Palaeoatmospheres on Plant Function: An Experimental and Modelling Assessment." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 353, no. 1365 (1998): 131-40. doi:10.1098/rstb.1998.0196.
"Uranium Mining In Virginia." Interview by Robert Bodnar. Virgnia Issues and Answers, January/February 2012, 28-37.
"Coal." DMME. July 4, 2015. Accessed July 14, 2016. https://www.dmme.virginia.gov/dgmr/coal.shtml.
Committee on Uranium Mining in Virginia, Committee On Earth Resources, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, and National Research Council. Uranium Mining in Virginia: Scientific, Technical, Environmental, Human Health and Safety, and Regulatory Aspects of Uranium Mining and Processing in Virginia. National Academies Press, 2012.
Dietrich, Tamara. "Virginia Gets Country's First Wind Energy Research Lease in Federal Waters." Daily Press. March 25, 2015. Accessed July 18, 2016. http://www.dailypress.com/news/science/dp-nws-wind-turbines-governor-20150325-story.html.
Francis, E. H., and A. W. Woodland. "The Carboniferous Period." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 1, no. 1 (1964): 221-32. doi:10.1144/gsl.sp.1964.001.01.21.
Gilmer, Amy K., Catherine B. Enomoto, James A. Lovett, and David B. Spears. Mineral and Fossil Fuel Production in Virginia (1999-2003). Charlottesville, VA: Commonwealth of Virginia, Dept. of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Division of Mineral Resources, 2005.
Grossman, Ethan L., Thomas E. Yancey, Thomas E. Jones, Peter Bruckschen, Boris Chuvashov, S.j. Mazzullo, and Horng-Sheng Mii. "Glaciation, Aridification, and Carbon Sequestration in the Permo-Carboniferous: The Isotopic Record from Low Latitudes." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 268, no. 3-4 (2008): 222-33. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.03.053.
Grymes, Charlie. 2003. Natural Gas Resources in Virginia. Accessed June 15, 2016.
Hunter, Leslie. Renewable Energy in the 50 States: Southeastern Region. American Council on Renewable Energy. 2013. July 16, 2016. http://www.acore.org/images/documents/Southeastern_Region.pdf
Keating, Martha. Cradle to Grave: The Environmental Impacts from Coal Cradle to Grave: The Environmental Impacts from Coal. Pdf. Boston: Clean Air Task Force, June 1, 2001.
United States. Energy Information Administration. Annual Coal Report 2014. Compiled by Lance Harris and JenAlyse Arena. March 23, 2016. Accessed July 13, 2016. http://www.eia.gov/coal/annual/.
Kidston, R. "The Flora of the Carboniferous Period. First Paper." Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 14, no. 2 (1901): 189-229. doi:10.1144/pygs.14.2.189.
Lane, Nick. Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Mackay, David J. C. Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air. Cambridge: UIT, 2009.
McCartney, Martha W. 1989. "Historic Overview Mid-Lothian Mines and Railroad Foundation - Midlothian, Virginia." December. Accessed June 2016. http://www.midlomines.org/historic-overview.html.
Milici, Robert C. "Assessment of Undiscovered Natural Gas Resources in Devonian Black Shales, Appalachian Basin, Eastern U.S.A." U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1268. 2005. Accessed July 15, 2016. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1268/.
"Mining 101." Mining 101. August 30, 2012. Accessed July 18, 2016. http://www.wvcoal.com/mining-101.html.
Montgomery, Carl T., and Michael B. Smith. "Hydraulic Fracturing: History Of An Enduring Technology." Journal of Petroleum Technology 62, no. 12 (2010): 26-40. doi:10.2118/1210-0026-jpt.
Orem, W.h., and R.b. Finkelman. "Coal Formation and Geochemistry." Treatise on Geochemistry, 2014, 207-32. doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-095975-7.00708-7.
Osborn, S. G., A. Vengosh, N. R. Warner, and R. B. Jackson. "Methane Contamination of Drinking Water Accompanying Gas-well Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, no. 20 (2011): 8172-176. doi:10.1073/pnas.1100682108.
Palmer, M. A., E. S. Bernhardt, W. H. Schlesinger, K. N. Eshleman, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, M. S. Hendryx, A. D. Lemly, G. E. Likens, O. L. Loucks, M. E. Power, P. S. White, and P. R. Wilcock. "Mountaintop Mining Consequences." Science 327, no. 5962 (2010): 148-49. doi:10.1126/science.1180543.
Rubinstein, Justin L., and Alireza Babaie Mahani. "Myths and Facts on Wastewater Injection, Hydraulic Fracturing, Enhanced Oil Recovery, and Induced Seismicity." Seismological Research Letters 86, no. 4 (2015): 1060-067. doi:10.1785/0220150067.
Saba, T., and M. Orzechowski. "Lack of Data to Support a Relationship between Methane Contamination of Drinking Water Wells and Hydraulic Fracturing." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, no. 37 (2011). doi:10.1073/pnas.1108435108.
Schmidt, Charles W. "Estimating Wastewater Impacts from Fracking." Environ. Health Perspect. Environmental Health Perspectives 121, no. 4 (2013). doi:10.1289/ehp.121-a117.
Scotese, C.r., and W. S. Mckerrow. "Revised World Maps and Introduction." Geological Society, London, Memoirs 12, no. 1 (1990): 1-21. doi:10.1144/gsl.mem.1990.012.01.01.
U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA. n.d. Independent Statistics and Analysis. Accessed June 23, 2016. https://www.eia.gov/state/rankings/?sid=US#/series/101.
USA. National Bureau Of Economic Research. Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Fracking Revolution. By James Feyrer, Erin Mansur, and Bruce Sacerdote. Cambridge, MA: NBER, 2015. Accessed July 15, 2016. http://www.nber.org/papers/w21624.
Wigley, Tom M. L. "Coal to Gas: The Influence of Methane Leakage." Climatic Change 108, no. 3 (2011): 601-08. doi:10.1007/s10584-011-0217-3.
Wilkes, G. P. Mining History of the Richmond Coalfield of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA: Commonwealth of Virginia, Dept. of Mines, Minerals, and Energy, Division of Mineral Resources, 1988.
Yergin, Daniel. The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World. New York: Penguin Press, 2011.
Comments: