Chemical and isotopic evidence for accelerated bacterial sulphate reduction in acid mining lakes after addition of organic carbon: Laboratory batch experiments

Chemical Geology

Volumn 204, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 325-344

  Fauville, Andrea ^a   Mayer, Bernhard ^b   Frömmichen, René ^c   Friese, Kurt ^c   Veizer, Jan ^a,d  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UFZ Umweltforschzentrum Leipzig ^*  (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Bacterial sulphate reduction; Oxygen isotopes; Sulphate; Sulphur isotopes

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; COAL MINE; LAKE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; REMEDIATION; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFUR ISOTOPE; WATER QUALITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; LUSATIA;

EID: 1942437431     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2003.11.010     Document Type: Article

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