Origin of rainwater acidity near the Los Azufres geothermal field, Mexico

Geothermics

Volumn 29, Issue 4-5, 2000, Pages 593-608

  Verma, Mahendra P ^a   Quijano, José Luis ^b   Johnson, Craig ^c   Gerardo, Jane Y ^d   Arellano, Victor ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ELÉCTRICAS   (Mexico)

^b Mich ^*  (Mexico)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alkalinity; Chemistry; Isotope; Los Azufres; Mexico; Rainwater; Sulfur 34

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; CHLORINE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ISOTOPES; NITRATES; NITROGEN OXIDES; RAIN; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATER ANALYSIS;

CHLORIDE; SULFATE; SULFUR OXIDE;

GEOTHERMAL FIELDS;

ACID RAIN; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; PH; RAINWATER; SULFUR;

MEXICO;

EID: 0033946690     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-6505(00)00024-9     Document Type: Article

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