Sulphur isotopes as tracers of the influence of potash mining in groundwater salinisation in the Llobregat Basin (NE Spain)

Water Research

Volumn 36, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 3989-4000

  Otero, N ^a   Soler, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contamination; Fertilisers; Potash mining; Sulphur isotopes; Water salinisation

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENTS; ISOTOPES; MINING; POTASH; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SPRINGS (WATER); SULFUR;

DILUTION PROCESSES;

GROUNDWATER;

GROUND WATER; POTASSIUM CARBONATE; RIVER WATER; SULFUR; TRACER; HYDROXIDE; POTASSIUM DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE;

GROUNDWATER; MINING; POTASH; SALINE WATER; SULFUR; TRACER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SALINITY; SPAIN; WATER TREATMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METHODOLOGY; OSMOLARITY; SOLUBILITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROXIDES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MINING; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLUBILITY; SPAIN; SULFUR ISOTOPES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0036754038     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(02)00125-2     Document Type: Article

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