Arsenic in contaminated soils and anthropogenic deposits at the Mokrsko, Roudný, and Kašperské Hory gold deposits, Bohemian Massif (CZ)

Environmental Geology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 716-730

  Filippi, Michal ^a   Goliáš, Viktor ^b   Pertold, Zdeněk ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Arsenate; Arsenic; Arsenopyrite; Oxidation zone; Quaternary cover

Indexed keywords

ARSENALS; CONTAMINATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOILS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOGENIC DEPOSITS; MINERALIZATION;

GEOLOGY;

ARSENIC; GOLD; MINE WASTE; ORE DEPOSIT; SOIL POLLUTION;

BOHEMIAN MASSIF; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 1642333261     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-003-0929-4     Document Type: Article

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