Use of compound-specific stable carbon isotope analyses to demonstrate anaerobic biodegradation of MTBE in groundwater at a gasoline release site

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 5139-5146

  Kolhatkar, Ravi ^a   Kuder, Tomasz ^b   Philp, Paul ^b   Allen, Jon ^b   Wilson, John T ^c  

^a Grp Environ Management Company   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; GASOLINE; GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPES; THERMAL PLUMES;

NATURAL ATTENUATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CARBON; GASOLINE; GROUND WATER; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER;

ATTENUATION; BIODEGRADATION; GROUNDWATER; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REMEDIATION;

BIODEGRADATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MICROCOSM; NATURAL ATTENUATION; REMEDIATION;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AUTOCLAVE; BIODEGRADATION; MICROCOSM; PLUME; WATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARCINOGENS; METHYL ETHERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0036882668     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es025704i     Document Type: Article

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