Chemical controls on acid discharges from acid sulfate soils under sugarcane cropping in an eastern Australian estuarine floodplain

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 103, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 269-276

  Lin, C ^a   Melville, M D ^a   Islam, M M ^a   Wilson, B P ^a   Yang, X ^a   Van Oploo, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acid discharge; Acid sulphate soil; Jarosite; Sugarcane; Sulphides

Indexed keywords

ACID; ALUMINUM SULFATE; BUFFER; FERROUS SULFATE; GROUND WATER; RAIN; SUGAR; SULFATE; SULFIDE;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAPILLARY FLOW; CROP; ESTUARY; SOIL;

EQUUS ASINUS; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR;

EID: 0032211075     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(98)00106-7     Document Type: Article

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