2024-03-29T00:44:53Zhttp://buleria.unileon.es/oai/requestoai:buleria.unileon.es:10612/140422022-11-10T12:08:48Zcom_10612_17col_10612_18
Facultad de Filosofia y Letras
Melón-Nava, Adrián
Peña-Pérez
Santos-González, Javier
Gómez-Villar, Amelia
González Gutiérrez, Rosa Blanca
Redondo Vega, José María
Geografia Fisica
2021
2022-02-28T12:49:52Z
2022-02-28T12:49:52Z
Redondo-Vega, Melón-Nava, A., Peña-Pérez, Santos-González, Gómez-Villar, & González-Gutiérrez. (2021). Coal pit lakes in abandoned mining areas in León (NW Spain): characteristics and geoecological significance. Environmental Earth Sciences, 80(24). https://doi.org/10.1007/S12665-021-10037-6
1866-6280
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12665-021-10037-6
http://hdl.handle.net/10612/14042
10.1007/s12665-021-10037-6
1866-6299
1-14 p
[EN] Mining activity introduces severe changes in landscapes and, subsequently, in land uses. One of the most singular changes is the existence of pit lakes, which occur in active and, more frequently, abandoned mines. Pit lakes are produced by water table interception when open-pit mines deepen. Their characteristics are highly variable, depending on the type of mine, the environment or the climate. In León province there is a long tradition of coal mining that dates back to the nineteenth century, and hundreds of open pits from the 1970s to 2018 have been opened, producing permanent landscape changes. This work analyses the main parameters, including morphological measurements, depth and pH values obtained from aerial photos and field work, of 76 coal pit lakes more than 30 m in length. The vast majority of these pit lakes were unknown until now and were not included in inventories or maps. The data obtained provide baseline knowledge that will allow, in the future, potential uses (storage of water for various uses, recreational use, wildlife habitat, and geological heritage sites) for these pit lakes and establish their importance as a new geoecological environment.
SI
Publicación en abierto financiada por el Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Castilla y León (BUCLE), con cargo al Programa Operativo 2014ES16RFOP009 FEDER 2014-2020 DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN, Actuación:20007-CL - Apoyo Consorcio BUCLE
eng
Springer
Attribution 4.0 International
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Geografía
Coal pit lakes
Morphometry
Open pit mining
León province
Coal pit lakes in abandoned mining areas in León (NW Spain): characteristics and geoecological significance
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Junta de Castilla y León LE080G19
Environmental Earth Sciences
80
24
1
14