The Human Impacts Database

A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.

This quantity comes from a time series measurement and the most recent value (2015) is reported.


Value:		≈ 6.5 × 10¹³ kg / yr see this value in other units This is equivalent to... ≈ 65 Gt / yr
HuID:		72899
Relevant Year(s):		2015
Summary:		The mass of overburden and waste sediment moved from global mining of coal.
Method:		This value was calculated given commodity-level stripping ratios (mass of overburden/waste per mass of coal resource mined) and reported values of global coal production by type.
Source:		Cooper, A. H., Brown, T. J., Price, S. J., Ford, J. R., Waters, C. N. Humans are the most significant global geomorphological driving force of the 21st century. The Anthropocene Review (2018)
Dataset:		Mass of sediment produced by category over 1925 — 2015 (Cooper2018_table1_sediment_mass.csv) global resolution
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Original Data License:		© The Authors
Added By:		gchure