Central Appalachia flatter due to mountaintop mining

Friday, February 5, 2016 - 12:32 in Earth & Climate

Forty years of mountaintop coal mining have made parts of Central Appalachia 60 percent flatter than they were before excavation, says new research by Duke University.

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