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- Title: Soil Quality, Forests, And Water Resources of Stripmines (Brief Article)
- Author : Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 181 KB
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INTRODUCTION The focus of this paper is the coal lands east of the geological Du Quoin monocline in Jackson, Saline and Williamson counties of southeastern Illinois. Pre-mining soils are largely order Alfisols and Subgroup Typic Fragiudalfs (Miles and Weiss, 1978) including infertile fragipan and claypan soils. Farmlands commonly have little remaining agricultural topsoil with some physical and chemical properties of the unmined subsoils inherently limiting when replaced for crop production. Both before mining and more so when replaced and commonly compacted the subsoils are glue-like when wet, brick-like when dry, and limit water entry, aeration, rooting, and plant growth.