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Coal fire mapping of East Basuria Colliery, Jharia coalfield using vertical derivative technique of magnetic data

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The present study deals with the coal fire mapping of East Basuria Colliery, Jharia coalfield, India, using the magnetic method. It is based on the fact that rise in temperature would result significant changes in magnetic susceptibility and thermo-remanent magnetization (TRM) of the overlying rocks. Magnetism increases slowly with the rise of temperature until the Curie temperature. Generally, rock/ overburden loses magnetization and becomes paramagnetic due to heating to Curie temperature, which results with significant reduction in magnetic susceptibility. However, magnetism increases significantly after cooling below the Curie temperature. Several data processing methods such as diurnal correction, reduction to pole (RTP), first and second vertical derivatives have been used for analysis of magnetic data and their interpretation. It is observed that the total magnetic field intensity anomaly of the area varies approximately from 44850 to 47460 nT and the residual magnetic anomaly varies approximately from −1323 to 1253 nT. The range of the magnetic anomaly after RTP is approximately 1050–1450 nT. About 20 low magnetic anomaly zones have been identified associated with active coal fire regions and 11 high magnetic anomaly zones have been identified associated with non-coal fire regions using vertical derivative techniques.

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Authors are thankful to DST, Govt. of India for fundinga project (SB/S4/ES-640/2012) on geotechnical characterization of Jharia coalfield area using geophysical techniques. Thanks are also due to Associate Editor and anonymous referees, as well as the Editors of the Journal for their suggestions for improving the manuscript. The authors wish to thank the Director, ISM and HOD, Department of Applied Geophysics, ISM, Dhanbad for their keen interest in this study. The authors are grateful to Dr K K K Singh, Senior Principal Scientist, CIMFR; Mr D N Tiwari, East Basuria Colliery for their support at various stages of this study.

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PAL, S.K., VAISH, J., KUMAR, S. et al. Coal fire mapping of East Basuria Colliery, Jharia coalfield using vertical derivative technique of magnetic data. J Earth Syst Sci 125, 165–178 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-016-0655-4

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