Glenn Stracher's Publications

Selected Publications

Stracher, Glenn B., Wampler, J. Marion, Li, Jun, Yongqiang Wang, 2019, The Earliest Known Uses of Coal as a Fuel: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Bronze Age Coal Fires in Stracher, Glenn B., ed., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 5, Case Studies - Advances in Field and Laboratory Research, p. 1-13, Elsevier.
Balogun, Aarinola Halimah, Dhar, Upasana, Finkelman, Robert B., Chakraborty, Sukalyan, Olanipekun, Olalekan, Shaikh, Wasim Akram, Stracher, Glenn B., 2019, Evidence of Human Health Impacts from Uncontrolled Coal Fires in Jharia, India in Stracher, Glenn B., ed., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 5, Case Studies - Advances in Field and Laboratory Research, p. 343-358, Elsevier.
Stracher, Glenn B., Wedincamp, Jimmy, Simmons, Breana, Shields, John P., White, Yelena, Nolter, Melissa A., Prakash, Anupma, Lindsley-Griffin, Nancy (late), 2019, Coal-Fire Microarthropods from the Centralia, Pennsylvania and Healy, Alaska Mine Fires in Stracher, Glenn B., ed., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 5, Case Studies - Advances in Field and Laboratory Research, p. 15-49, Elsevier.
Gielisch, Hartwig and Stracher, Glenn B., 2019, Burning Coal-Mine Collieries in the Jharia Coalfield of India in Stracher, Glenn B., ed., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 5, Case Studies - Advances in Field and Laboratory Research, p. 333-342, Elsevier.
Stracher, Glenn B., 2019, Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 5, Case Studies - Advances in Field and Laboratory Research, 506 p. Elsevier.
Zhang, Yu, Hu, Sherong, Stracher, Glenn B., Song, Zeyang, Coal Fires of Northern China (online), in Stracher, Glenn B., ed., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 5 (Companion Website), Case Studies - Advances in Field and Laboratory Research, p. 1-14.
Nazar, Muhammad Zeeshan, Stracher, Glenn B., Sarwar, Zahid Mahmood, 2019, Morphology, Classification and Conrol of Mites (online), in Stracher, Glenn B., ed., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 5 (Companion Site) , Case Studies - Advances in Field and Laboratory Research, slides 1-120.
Stracher, Glenn B., 2019, Microarthropods at Coal-Fire Gas Vents, SciTech Connect (online), Elsevier.

Stracher, Glenn B., White, Yelena, Li, Jun, 2017, Thermodynamic Loop Generated Pressure-Temperature Stability Diagrams for the Nucleation of Solids from Coal-Fire Gas, SciTech Connect (online), Elsevier.

Gielisch, Hartwig and Stracher, Glenn B., 2016, Burning Coal-Mine Collieries in the Jharia Coalfield of India in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volumes 1- 4 Companion Website, booksite.elsevier.com/9780444594129, Elsevier Earth and Planetary Sciences, p. 1-14.
Stracher, Glenn B., and Johnson, Donald L., Chemical and Materials Thermodynamics for Engineers and Scientists: Applied Thermodynamic Loop Analysis. This textbook is in development and will be a while in the making.
Martinelli, Giovanni, Cremonini, Stefano, Samonati, Eleonora, Stracher, Glenn B., 2015, Italian Peat and Peat Fires in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Rein, Guillermo, eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 4, Peat - Geology, Combustion, and Case Studies, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 39-73.
Stracher, Glenn B., 2016, Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, SciTechConnect (online), Elsevier.
Stracher, Glenn B., Schroeder, Paul A., White, Yelena, Kuenzer, Claudia, 2015, Coal Combustion and Mineralization in the Helen Shan Mountains of Northern China in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 3, Coal Fires - Case Studies, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 95-108.
Gatel, Pierre, ��ček, Vladimir, Kruszewski, Łukasz, Devouard, Bertrand, Thi�ry, Vincent, Eytier, Christiane, Eytier, Jean-Robert, Favreau, Georges, Vigier, Jonathan, Stracher, Glenn B., 2015, Combustion Mineralogy and Petrology of Oil-Shale Slags, Lapanouse, S�v�rac-le-Ch�teau, Aveyron, France: Analogies with Hydrocarbon Fires in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 3, Coal Fires - Case Studies, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 681-742.
Garrison, Trent M., Hower, James C., Stracher, Glenn B., Henke, Kevin R., O'Keefe, Jennifer M. K., 2015, A Review of Coal-Fire Sampling Methods in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 3, Coal Fires - Case Studies, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 743-757.
Vice, Daniel, H., Stracher, Glenn B., Eckert, Aaron, 2015, Coal Fires of the Pacific Northwest, USA in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 3, Coal Fires - Case Studies, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 671-680.
Stracher, Glenn B., Pone, Denis, Schroeder, Paul, Finkelman, Robert F., Hein, Kim A., Annegarn, Harold, 2014, The Witbank Coal Field of South Africa: Spontaneous Combustion and Associated Minerals (accepted for publication).
Vapnik, Yevgeny, Galuskina, Irina, Palchik, Vyacheslav, Sokol, Ellina V., Galuskin, Evgeny, Lindsley-Griffin, Nancy, Stracher, Glenn B., 2015, Stone-Tool Workshops of the Hatrurim Basin, Israel: Mineralogical, Geochemical, and Rock Mechanics of Lithic Industrial Materials in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 3, Coal Fires - Case Studies, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 281-316.
Stracher, Glenn B., 2013, Kohlefeuer Weltweit, (The Global Ignition of Coal Fires), in Kraft, Hannelore, Wilhelm, J�rgen, Lubek, Ulrike, and Pa�, Reinhard, eds., Kohle.Global, Eine Reise in die Reviere der anderen, vom 15, Katalog zur Ausstellung im Ruhr Museum, Essen Germany, p. 307-310 (in German).
Fabiańska, Monika, Ciesielczuk, Justyna, Kruszewski, Łukasz, Misz-Kennan, Magdalena, Blake, Donald R., Stracher, Glenn, Moszumańska, Izabela, 2013, Gaseous compounds and efflorescences generated in self-heating coal-waste dumps - A case study from the Upper and Lower Silesian Coal Basins (Poland), International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 116-117, p. 247-261.
Stracher, Glenn B., Lindsley-Griffin, Nancy, Simmons, Breana, Wedincamp, Jimmy, Griffin, John, Barnes, Melissa A., 2013, Newly Discovered Arthropods at Gas Vents and Fissures: Centralia Mine Fire, Eastern Pennsylvania, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, no. 7, Paper No. 281-10.
Garrison, Trent, Hower, James C., O�Keefe, Jen, Stracher, Glenn, Blake, Donald R., 2013, Levels of Variation in Emissions of Volatile Organic Hydrocarbons and Aromatics from Coal Fires, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, no. 7, Paper No. 348-3.
Simmons, Breana, Wedincamp, Jimmy, Barnes, Melissa A., Stracher, Glenn B., 2013, Soil Arthropods Associated with Continuous Coal Fires in Centralia, Pennsylvania, Soil Ecology Society 14th Biennial Meeting (June 11-14), Camden, New Jersey, SES Program p. 8.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2013, The Continents on Fire: Global Coal and Peat Fires Research, 125 Anniversary Edition, GSA Today, Geological Society of America (By Invitation of GSA; In Preparation).

Stracher, Glenn B., 2013, Underground Coal Fires in Bobrowski, Peter, ed., Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards, Springer, p. 92-94.

Kuenzer, Claudia and Stracher, Glenn B., 2012, Geomorphology of Coal Seam Fires, Journal of Geomorphology, v. 138, issue 1, p. 209-222.

Minayeva, Tatyana, Sirin, Andrey, and Stracher, Glenn B., 2013, The Peat Fires of Russia, in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 375-394.

Fishman, Ilia L., Kazakova, Yuliya I., Sokol, Ellina V., Stracher, Glenn B., Kokh, Svetlana N., Polyansky, Oleg P., Vapnik, Yevgeny, White, Yelena, and Bajadilov, Kalik O., 2013, Mud Volcanism and Gas Combustion in the Yli Depression, Southeastern Kazakhstan in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 217-231.

	Stracher, Glenn B., Kuenzer, Claudia, Hecker, Christoph, Zhang, Jianzhong, Schroeder, Paul A., and McCormack, John K., 2013, Wuda and Ruqigou Coalfield Fires of Northern China in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 41-65.
	Stracher, Glenn B., Whitehouse, Alfred E., Mulyana, Asep A.S., Schroeder, Paul A., and McCormack, John K., 2013, Indonesian Coal Fires of East Kalimantan, Borneo in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 179-189.
	Quintero, Jhon A., Rios, Carlos A., and Stracher, Glenn B., 2013, Clinker at El Cerrej�n Coal Mine, Colombia: Characteristics and Potential Uses in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 67-78.
	Stracher, Glenn B., Finkelman, Robert, B., McCormack, John K., Schroeder, Paul A., Pone, Denis, Annegarn, Harold, and Blake, Donald R., 2013, Witbank and Free State Coalfield Fires of South Africa in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 407- 426.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2013, Coal Fires of the United States in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 441-528.

Stracher, Glenn B. and Carroll, Richard E., 2013, Coal Fires of the United States (Alabama) in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 446- 450.

Prakash, Anupma, Gens, Rudiger, Styers, John, and Stracher, Glenn B., 2013, Coal Fires of the United States (Alaska) in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 451- 455.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2013, Coal Fires of the United States (Colorado) in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 477- 488.

Stracher, Glenn B., Hiett, John K., Hower, James C., Mardon, Sarah M., Lindsley-Griffin, Nancy, Gens, Rudiger, Griffin, John R., and Schroeder, Paul A., 2013, Coal Fires of the United States (Kentucky) in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 489- 497.

Stracher, Glenn B. and Nolter, Melissa A., 2013, Coal Fires of the United States (Pennsylvania) in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 498-509.

	Stracher, Glenn B. and Gens, Rudiger, 2013, Coal Fires of the United States (Utah) in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 510-514.
	Stracher, Glenn B. and Heffern, Edward L., 2013, Coal Fires of the United States (Wyoming and Montana) in Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Photographs and Multimedia Tours, Elsevier, the Netherlands, p. 515-528.

Engle, Mark A., Radke, Lawrence F., Heffern, Edward L., O'Keefe, Jennifer M.K., Hower, James, C., Smeltzer, Charles D., Hower, Judith M., Olea Ricardo A., Eatwell, Robert J., Blake, Donald R., Emsbo-Mattingly, Stephen D., Stout, Scott A., Queen, Gerald, Aggen, Kerry L., Kolker, Allan, Prakash, Anupma, Henke, Kevin R., Stracher, Glenn B., Schroeder, Paul A., Rom�n-Col�n, Yomayra, and ter Schure, Arnout, 2012, Gas emissions, minerals, and tars associated with three coal fires, Powder River Basin, USA, Science of the Total Environment (STOTEN), v. 420, p. 146-159.

Engle, Mark A., Radke, Lawrence F., Heffern, Edward L., O'Keefe, Jennifer M.K., Smeltzer, Charles D., Hower, James, C., Hower, Judith M., Prakash, Anupma, Kolker, Allan, Eatwell, Robert J., ter Schure, Arnout, Queen, Gerald, Aggen, Kerry L., Stracher, Glenn B., Henke, Kevin R., Olea, Ricardo A., and Rom�n-Col�n, Yomayra, 2011, Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from coal fires using airborne and ground-based methods, International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 88, p. 147-151.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2010, Coal Fires: The Rising Global Interest, EARTH, v. 55, no. 9, p. 46-55.

Stracher, Glenn. B. and Finkelman, Robert . B., 2010, Burning Coal Research in the United States in C. Drebenstedt, C. Fischer, U. Meyer, W. Jianjun, K. Bing, eds., Latest Developments in Coal Fire Research, Second International Conference on Coal Fires Research (ICCRF2), TU Bergakademie, Freiberg, Germany, p. 38-43.

	Pirrone, N., Cinnirella, S., Feng, X., Finkelman, R.B., Friedli, H.R., Leaner, J., Mason, R., Mukherjee, A.B., Stracher, G.B., Streets, D.G., and Telmer, K., 2010, Global mercury emissions to the atmosphere from anthropogenic sources and natural processes, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, v. 10, p. 5951-5964.
	Stracher, Glenn B. and Taylor, Tammy P., 2011, The Effects of Global Coal Fires in Stracher, G.B., Prakash, A., and Sokol, E.V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 1: Coal -- Geology and Combustion, chapter 6, Elsevier, p. 101-114.

Finkelman, Robert B. and Stracher, Glenn B., 2011, Environmental and Health Impacts of Coal Fires in Stracher G.B., Prakash, A., and Sokol, E.V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 1: Coal -- Geology and Combustion, chapter 7, Elsevier, p. 115-125.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2011, Gas Vent Mineralization and Coal Combustion in Stracher, G.B., Prakash, A., and Sokol, E.V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 1: Coal -- Geology and Combustion, chapter 9, Elsevier, p.135-153.

Schroeder, Paul, Fleisher, Chris, and Stracher, Glenn B., 2011, Sample Identification and Imaging of Gas-Vent Mineral Assemblages in Stracher G.B., Prakash, A., and Sokol, E.V., eds., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 1: Coal -- Geology and Combustion, chapter 10, Elsevier, p. 155-171.

Mark A. Engle, James C. Hower, Glenn B. Stracher, Jennifer M.K. O'Keefe, Kevin Henke, Edward Heffern, Allan Kolker, and Donald R. Blake, 2010, Gases Emitted from Spontaneous Coal Fires: Composition and Potential Environmental Impacts, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, paper no. 8-2, v. 42, no. 1, p. 62.

Emsbo-Mattingly, Steven D., Stout, Scott A., Stracher, Glenn B., and Hower, James C., 2010 (January 27) Natural Coal Tars: A Geological Contaminant, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP) Symposium, San Antonio, Texas.

O'Keefe, Jennifer M.K., Henke, Kevin R., Hower, James C., Engle, Mark A., Stracher, Glenn B., Strucker, J.D., Drew, Jordan W., Staggs, Wayne D., Murray, Tiffany M., Hammond III, Maxwell L., Adkins, Kenneth D., Mullins, Bailey J., and Lemley, Edward W., 2010, CO₂, CO, and Hg emissions from the Truman Shepherd and Ruth Mullins coal fires, eastern Kentucky, USA, Science and the Total Environment (STOTEN), Elsevier, v. 408, p. 1628-1633.

Kolker, Allan, Engle, Mark, Stracher, Glenn, Hower, James, Prakash, Anupma, Radke, Lawrence, ter Schure, Arnout, Heffern, Ed., 2009, Emissions from Coal Fires and Their Impact on the Environment, US Geological Survey, Fact Sheets 2009-3084, http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3084.

Stracher, Glenn B., Finkelman, Robert B., Hower, James C., Pone, J. Denis N., Prakash, Anupma, Blake, Donald R., Schroeder, Paul A., Emsbo-Mattingly, Steven D., and O'Keefe, Jennifer M.K., 2009, Natural and Anthropogenic Coal Fires in Cleveland, Cutler J., ed., The Encyclopedia of Earth, Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington, D.C.

Kolker, Allan, Engle, M.A., Hower, J.C., O�Keefe, J.M.K, Radke, L.F, Heffern, E.L., ter Schure, Arnout, Stracher, G.B., Prakash, Anupma, Rom�n-Col�n, Yomayra, and Olea, Ricardo, 2009, Measuring CO₂ emissions from coal fires in the U.S., Proceedings, Twenty-Sixth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September, 2009, 7 p. Honorable mention for best technical paper.

Kolker, Allan, Engle, Mark A., Hower, James C., O'Keefe, Jennifer M.K., Heffern, Edward L., Radke, Lawrence F., Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, Ter Schure, Arnout, Olea, Ricardo, and Rom�-Col�n, Yomayra, 2009, Quantifying Atmospheric CO₂ Emissions from Coal Fires: Sampling Approaches and Some U.S. Examples, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Paper no. 166-4).

Hower, James C., Henke, Kevin, O'Keefe, Jennifer M.K., Engle, Mark A., Blake, Donald R., and Stracher, Glenn B., 2009, The Tip Top coal-mine fire, Kentucky: Preliminary investigation of the measurement of mercury and other hazardous gases from coal-fire gas vents, International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 80, p. 63-67.

Pirrone, N., Cinnirella, S., Feng, X., Finkelman, R.B., Friedli, H.R., Leaner, J., Mason, R.P., Mukherjee, A.B., Stracher, G., Streets, D.G., and Telmer, K., 2009, Global mercury emissions to the atmosphere from natural and anthropogenic sources in Pirrone, N. and Mason, R.P., eds., Mercury Fate and Transport in the Global Atmosphere: Emissions, Measurements and Models, Chapter 1, Springer Publishing.

Kolker, Allan, Engle, Mark, Stracher, Glenn B., Hower, James, and Prakash, Anupma, 2009, Measuring CO₂ Emissions from Spontaneous Coal Fires in the U.S., Twenty-Sixth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, proceedings on CD-ROM.

Hower, James C., Henke, Kevin R., O�Keefe, Jennifer M.K., Engle, Mark A., Stracher, Glenn B., and Blake, Donald R., 2009, The Tiptop Coal Mine Fire, Kentucky: Preliminary Investigation of the Measurement of Mercury, Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide from Coal-Fire Gas Vents, Twenty-Sixth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, proceedings on CD-ROM.

Masalehdani, Naze-Nancy, Stracher, Glenn B., Black, Philippa B., Potdevin, Jean-Luc, Hower, James C., Finkelman, Robert B., Prakash, Anupma, and Pone, J. Denis N., 2009, Ancient and Modern Coal-Seam Fires: Long-Term Geochemical Effects, Carbon'09, The Annual World Conference on Carbon, Biarritz, France, proceedings on CD-ROM.

Stracher, Glenn B., Lindsley-Griffin, Nancy, Griffin, John R., Renner, Steven, Schroeder, Paul, Viellenave, James H., Masalehdani, M. Naze-Nancy, and Kuenzer, Claudia, 2008, Revisiting the South Ca�on Number 1 Coal Mine Fire during a Geologic Excursion from Denver to Glenwood Springs, Colorado in Raynolds, R.G., ed., Roaming the Rocky Mountains and Environs: Geological Field Trips, Geological Society of America Field Guide 10, p. 101-110, also see GSA Data Repository.

Emsbo-Mattingly, S.D., Stout, S.A., Stracher, G. B., and Hower, J.C., 2008, Extractable PAHs in Coal: The Effects of Rank and Natural/Anthropogenic Coking, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, North America 29th Annual Meeting (November 16 - 20), Tampa, Florida, p. 324.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2008, The Origin of Gas Vent Minerals: Isochemical and Mass Transfer Processes, in Stracher, Glenn B., ed., Geology of Coal Fires: Case Studies from Around the World, Reviews in Engineering Geology, V. XVIII, Geological Society of America, p. 91-96.

Stracher, Glenn B., Hower, James C., Hiett, John, Finkelman, Robert B., Prakash, Anupma, Pone, J. Denis N., Mathews, Jonathan, Annegarn, Harold, Hein, Kim A.A., Blake, Donald R., Schroeder, Paul A., Emsbo-Mattingly, Stephen D., O�Keefe, Jennifer M.K., and Mardon, Sarah M., 2008, Coal Fires: Gateway to Environmental Destruction and Human Suffering: Fossil Fuel Foundation of Africa , 2^nd Conference on Spontaneous Combustion: Open Cast and Surface Mines (September 9th), Parkview, South Africa, p. 4-5 (Plenary Presentation).

Stracher, Glenn, B., Hower, James, C., Schroeder, Paul, Fleisher, Chris, Kitson, Jimmy, Barwick, Larry, Hiett, John, Mardon, Sarah M., Carroll, Richard E., and Emsbo-Mattingly, Stephen D., Environmental Dangers of Coal Fires in Kentucky and Alabama, 2008, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, paper no. 310-7, v. 40, no. 6, p. 493.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2008, Geology of Coal Fires: Case Studies from Around the World, in Stracher, Glenn B., ed., Geology of Coal Fires: Case Studies from Around the World, Reviews in Engineering Geology, V. XVIII, Geological Society of America, p. v - ix.

Hower, James C., Stracher, Glenn B., Hiett, John, Mardon, Sarah, O'Keefe, Jennifer M.K., Schroeder, Paul, Blake, Donald R., and Emsbo-Mattingly, Stephen D., 2008, Reconnaissance of Coal-Mine Fires in Perry County, Eastern Kentucky, Twenty-Fifth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, proceedings on CD-Rom.

Pone, J. Denis N., Stracher, Glenn B., Finkelman, Robert B., Annegarn, Harold J., and Hein, Kim A.A., 2008, Potential Land Contamination Associated with Solid Chemicals Mobilized by Spontaneous Combustion of Coal, 2008, Proceedings of the 6th International Acid Sulfate Soil Conference and the Acid Rock Drainage Symposium (September 16-20), Guangdong Press Group, Guangdong Science & Technology Press, Guangzhou, P. R. China, p. 286.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2007, Coal Fires Burning Around the World: Opportunity for Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research, GSA Today ("Groundwork" article by invitation), Geological Society of America, v. 17, no. 11, p. 36-37.

Stracher, Glenn B., Sokol, Ellina V., Prakash, Anupma, Hower, James C., Kuenzer, Claudia, Pone, J. Denis N., Schroeder, Paul, Masalehdani, M. Naze-Nancy, Mardon, Sarah, and Hiett, John, 2007, Coal Fires: Opportunity for Innovative Research in Mineralogy, Petrology, Structural Geology, and Environmental Science, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 30.

Masalehdani, M. Naze-Nancy, Paquette, Yves, Bouchardon, Jean-Luc, Guy, Bernard, Stracher, Glenn B., and Chalier, Jean, 2007, Vapor Deposition of Arsenic-Bearing Minerals Originating from a Burning Culm Bank: St Etienne, the Loire Region, France, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 298.

Pone, J. Denis N., Hein, Kim A.A., Stracher, Glenn B., Annegarn, Harold J., Finkelman, Robert B., Blake, Donald R., McCormack John K, and Schroeder, Paul, 2007, The Spontaneous Combustion of Coal and Its By-Products in the Witbank and Sasolburg Coalfields of South Africa, International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 72, p. 124-140. Top 3 listing in Science Direct.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2007, Gas Vent Mineralogy of Coal Fires Burning Around the World, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 2, p. 81.

Pone, J. Denis N., Hein, Kim A.A., Stracher, Glenn B., Finkelman, Robert B., and Annegarn, Harold J., 2007, Potential Environmental and Health Impacts of Burning Coal in Witbank Coalfield, South Africa, Ecological Research for Sustaining the Environment in China, ERSEC Ecological Book Series - 4, p. 1-12.

Stracher, Glenn B., Nolter, Melissa A., Schroeder, Paul, McCormack, John, Blake, Donald R., and Vice, Daniel H., 2006, The Great Centralia Mine Fire: A Natural Laboratory for the Study of Coal Fires, in Pazzaglia, F.J., ed., Excursions in Geology and History: Field Trips in the Middle Atlantic States, Geological Society of America Field Guide 8, p. 33-45.

Stracher, Glenn B., and Prakash, Anupma, 2006, Gas Vent Minerals: Isochemical and Mass Transfer Processes, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, p. 168.

Prakash, Anupma and Stracher, Glenn B., 2006, Tracking, Documenting, and Dissemination Global information about Coal Fires, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, p. 94.

Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, Schroeder, Paul, McCormack, John, Zhang, Xiangmin, Van Dijk, Paul, and Blake, Donald, 2005, New Mineral Occurrences and Mineralization Processes: Wuda Coal-Fire Gas Vents of Inner Mongolia, American Mineralogist, v. 90, p. 1729-1739. Top 10 listing in Geoscience World.

Stracher, Glenn B., Tabet, David E., Anderson, Paul B., and Pone, J. D�nis N., 2005, Utah's State Rock and the Emery Coalfield: Geology, Mining History, and Natural Burning Coal Beds, in Pederson, J., and Dehler, C.M., eds, Interior Western United States, Geological Society of America Field Guide 6, p. 199-210.

Stracher, Glenn B., Pone, J. D�nis N., Finkelman, Robert B., Annegarn, Harold J., McCormack, John, Schroeder, Paul, and Blake, Donald L., 2005, Gas Vent Mineralogy and Geochemistry: The Burning Culm Banks of South Africa, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 7, p. 453.

Pone, J. D�nis N., Stracher, Glenn B., Finkelman, Robert B., Hein, Kim A.A., and Annegarn, Harold J., 2005, The environmental impact of coal fires: spontaneous combustion in South Africa, ERSEC (Ecological Research for Sustaining the Environment in China) International conference on understanding, extinction and prevention of spontaneous coal seam fires, book of abstracts and program, Beijing, China, p. 94-95.

Stracher, Glenn B., Renner, Steven, Colaizzi, Gary, and Taylor, Tammy P., 2004, The South Ca�on Number 1 Coal Mine Fire: Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in Nelson, E.P., and Erslev, E.A., eds., Field Trips in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA: Geological Society of America Field Guide 5, p. 143-150.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2004, Wild Coal Fires (CD-ROM), Spontaneous Combustion of Coal Proceedings, The Fossil Fuel Foundation of Africa and SABS: Coal and Mineral Technologies (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2004, Coal Mine Fire-- Gas and Condensation Products: Collection Techniques for Laboratory Analysis, Spontaneous Combustion of Coal Proceedings, The Fossil Fuel Foundation of Africa and SABS: Coal and Mineral Technologies (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa p. 2-7.

Stracher, Glenn B., and Finkelman, Robert B., 2004, Wild Coal Fires Burning Around the World: Origin, Catastrophic Effects, and Condensation Products, Spontaneous Combustion of Coal Proceedings, The Fossil Fuel Foundation of Africa and SABS: Coal and Mineral Technologies (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa p. 42- 43.

Stracher, Glenn B., and Taylor, Tammy P., 2004, Coal Fires Burning out of Control Around The World: Thermodynamic Recipe for Environmental Catastrophe, in Stracher, G.B., ed., International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 59/1-2, p. 7-17. Top 5 listing in Science Direct.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2004, Coal Fires Burning Around the World: a Global Catastrophe, in Stracher, G.B., ed., International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 59/1-2, p. 1-6. Top 10 listing in Science Direct.

Stracher, Glenn B., Taylor, Tammy P., Nolter, Melissa, Vice, Daniel H., Blake, Donald R., and Cerpovicz, Paul F., 2004, Centralia Mine Fire Collecting Extravaganza with National Geographic, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 5, p. 42.

Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, Schroeder, Paul, and McCormack, John, 2004, New Mineral Occurrences from the Wuda Coalfield Fires of Inner Mongolia, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 5, p. 42.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2003, Coal mine fire--Gas and Condensation Products: Collection Techniques for Laboratory Analysis, v. 14, no. 5, Energeia, Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2002 (October), Coal Fires: A burning global recipe for catastrophe, Geotimes, v. 47, no. 10, p. 36-37, 66.

Stracher, Glenn B., Taylor, Tammy P., and Prakash, Anupma, 2002, Coal Fires: A Synopsis of Their Origin, Remote Sensing Detection, and Thermodynamics of Sublimation, in Shannon, S., editor, Case Histories of Mine Reclamation and Regulation, Environmental Technology for Mining: Robertson GeoConsultants Inc., Reno, NV; Vancouver, B.C., p. 1-8.

Whitney, P.R., Stracher, G.B., and Grover, T., 2002, Precambrian Geology of the Whitehall Area, Southeastern Adirondacks, in J. McLelland and P. Karabinos, editors, New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference-New York State Geological Association (NEIGC-NYSGA) Guidebook for Fieldtrips in New York and Vermont, p. C2-1 to C2-10.

Stracher, Glenn B., and Taylor, Tammy P., 2001, Coal Fires Burning out of Control Around The World: Thermodynamic Recipe for Environmental Catastrophe, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no. 2.

Stracher, Glenn B., and Shea, James H., 2000, Enhancing Quantitative Skills of Physical-Geology Students with a Geologic Compass, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 48, p. 89-91.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2000, Forward, in Stracher, Glenn B., ed., Enhancing the Quantitative Skills of Earth Science Students, International Journal of Mathematical Geology (Special Edition), v. 32, no. 2, p. 149-150: 1998 SEGSA symposium no. 7.

Macdonald, Heather R., Srogi, LeeAnn, Stracher, Glenn B., 2000, Building the Quantitative Skills of Students in Geoscience Courses, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 48, p.409-412.

Hanley, Tom, Stracher, Glenn B., and Wampler, J.M., 2000, Alleghanian K-Ar Ages from Texturally Distinctive Biotite-Rich Lithologies in the Central Uchee Belt of Western Georgia, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 2, p. 23.

Stracher, Glenn B., and Shea, James H., 1999, Enhancing Quantitative and Map Reading Skills of Introductory Geoscience Students with a Geologic Compass, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 7, p. 209.

Hanley, Tom, Stracher, Glenn B., and Fleisher, Chris, 1999, Petrology and Mineral Chemistry of Calc-Silicates from the Uchee Belt, Columbus, Georgia, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 7, p. 167.

Stracher, Glenn B., Lindsley-Griffin, Nancy, and Griffin, John R., 1998, A Laboratory Exercise in Mineral Thermodynamics, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 46, p. 169-177.

Stracher, Glenn B., and Guy, Albert G., 1998, The Internal Energy of a PV = RT Gas: A Univariable or Multivariable Function, International Journal of Mathematical Geology, v. 30, no.3, p. 251-258.

Stracher, Glenn B., 1996, Long-Distance Geology, Geotimes, v. 41, no. 4, p. 10-11.

Stracher, Glenn B., 1996, Geology and Long Distance Learning, University System of Georgia Annual Computing Conference Proceedings, Office of Information and Instructional Technology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, p. 42-44.

Stracher, Glenn B., 1995, The Anthracite Smokers of Eastern Pennsylvania: P_S2(g)-T Stability Diagram by TL Analysis, International Journal of Mathematical Geology, v. 27, no. 4, p. 499-511.

Stracher, Glenn B., 1994, Thermodynamically calculated P-T curve for the condensation of crystalline sulfur from anthracite coal gas: eastern Pennsylvania, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6.

Stracher, Glenn B., 1992, Rheology and Deformation History of a Precambrian Granulite Facies SE Adirondack Brittle-Ductile Shear Zone, Northeastern Geology, v. 14, no. 2 & 3, p. 113-120.

BOOKS:

Stracher, Glenn B., Prakash, Anupma, and Sokol, Ellina V., Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volumes 1- 5, The Netherlands, Elsevier (Volume 1, 2011, 357 p., ISBN: 978-0-444-52858-2; Volumes 2, 2013, 554 p., ISBN: 978-0-444-59412-9; Volume 3, 2015, 786 p. ISBN: 978-0-444-59509-6; Volume 4, 2015, 149 p., ISBN: 978-0-444-59510-2; Volume 5, 2019, 506 p., ISBN: 978-0-12-849885-9.

Stracher, Glenn B., 2008, Geology of Coal Fires: Case Studies From Around the World, Geological Society of America Reviews in Engineering Geology, V. XVIII, 278 p. plus index.

Stracher, Glenn B., Coal Fires Burning Around the World: A Global Catastrophe, 2004, International Journal of Coal Geology, Elsevier, v. 59, Iss 1-2, 151 p.

Johnson, Donald G. and Stracher, Glenn B., Introduction to Thermodynamics for Materials Science - Application of Thermodynamic Loop Analysis, Kondansha Publishing Company, Japan.

Stracher, Glenn B. and Johnson, Donald L., Chemical and Materials Thermodynamics for Engineers and Scientists: Applied Thermodynamic Loop Analysis. This textbook is in development and will be a while in the making.

COMPUTER MEDIATED DISTANCE LEARNING:

Common Rocks, Minerals, and Ores, Course 1, Version November 09, 2010, EduMine, Environmental Technology for Mining: Robertson GeoConsultants Inc., Reno, Nevada, USA; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Strategic and Industrial Ore Minerals, Course 2 (Coming soon!), 2011, EduMine, Environmental Technology for Mining: Robertson GeoConsultants Inc., Reno, Nevada, USA; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

COMPUTER PROGRAMS:

Stracher, Glenn B., 1999, PYROXENE: a computer program for the chemical classification of single-chain silicates according to guidelines established by the International Mineralogical Association, RockWare, Earth Science Software, Golden, Colorado.

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