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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY
Volume 196, Issue -, Pages 302-316Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2018.07.012
Keywords
Coal wastes; River sediments; Self-heating; Geochemical ratios; Trimethylsilyl (TMS) derivatives; Biomarkers
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- University of Silesia
- NCN grant [2015/19/B/ST10/00925]
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Various types of coal waste material (fresh, self-heated, soil-covered) and river sediments polluted by coal dust were studied. Characteristic geochemical features of recent vegetation input in river sediments were identified, e.g. the dominance of n-alkanols and n-alkanoic acids over n-alkanes. In the river sediments, several coal-related compounds were also found, e.g. n-alkylbenzenes, acetophenone and methylated phenols. The occurrence of sterols, stanols, vanillin, and methylbenzoic, benzeneacetic, oxalic, succinic and levulinic acids in coal waste samples (with the exception of fresh coal wastes) may indicate primitive soil-forming processes related to vegetation and moss cover. These compounds were also commonly identified in river sediments. Their distribution, characteristic of extant (as opposed to fossil) organic matter, was confirmed by several applied geochemical ratios, such as the EOP index (even-over-odd predominance) of fatty acids, (Sigma n-alkanoic acid + Sigma long chain n-alkanes)/Sigma short chain n-alkanes or (Sigma n-alkanoic acids + Sigma n-aUcanoLs)/Sigma n-aUtcmes and various CPI (carbon preference indexes of n-alkanes).
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