Deterioration of water quality in a reservoir receiving pyrite-bearing rock drainage and its geochemical modeling

Engineering Geology

Volumn 55, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 45-55

  Igarashi, Toshifumi ^a   Oyama, Takahiro ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acidification; Aluminum hydroxides; Oxidation; PHREEQE; Pyrite; Reservoir

Indexed keywords

HYDRATED ALUMINA; IRON; LEACHING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; OXIDATION; PH; PYRITES; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SOLUBILITY; WATER QUALITY;

ACIDIFICATION;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ACIDIFICATION; RESERVOIR; WATER QUALITY;

ACIDIFICATION; EXCAVATION; OXIDATION; PYRITE; RESERVOIR; SULFATE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 0034096473     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7952(99)00105-2     Document Type: Article

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