Pore structures of oil-contaminated, aggregated oil-contaminated and uncontaminated soils in relation to microbial activities

Environmental Technology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 587-594

  Xu, J G ^a   Feng, Y ^b   Johnson, R L ^a   McNabb, D H ^a  

^a Alberta Environmental Centre   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Image analysis; Microbial activity; Oil contamination; Pore structures

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; BIODEGRADATION; HYDROCARBONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PORE STRUCTURE; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS;

AGGREGATION PROCESS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; OIL CONTAMINATED SOIL; OIL CONTAMINATION; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; UNCONTAMINATED SOILS; UNTREATED OIL;

CONTAMINATION;

HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; MICROORGANISM; OIL SPILL; SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 0029024358     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593331608616300     Document Type: Article

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