Impacts of Mountaintop Mining on the Hillside Slopes in West Virginia's Headwaters Twentymile Creek (IMAGE)

Duke University

Impacts of Mountaintop Mining on the Hillside Slopes in West Virginia's Headwaters Twentymile Creek

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This image shows the hillside slope of West Virginia's Headwaters Twentymile Creek watershed pre- and post-mining calculated from elevation maps. Images taken from http://www.minedwatersheds.com/.

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Photo courtesy of Matthew Ross, Duke University.

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