Sources and processes affecting sulfate in a karstic groundwater system of the Franconian Alb, southern Germany

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 7118-7125

  Einsiedl, Florian ^a   Mayer, Bernhard ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CONTAMINATION; POROUS MATERIALS; SULFATE MINERALS; SULFUR;

GROUNDWATER SULFATE; KARST AQUIFER; SULFUR TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES;

GROUNDWATER;

CARBON; GROUND WATER; ISOTOPE; OXYGEN 18; SULFATE; SULFUR 34; TRITIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER; KARST; SULFATE; VADOSE ZONE;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COVALENT BOND; GERMANY; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; MINERALIZATION; REDUCTION; ROCK; WATER SUPPLY;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GERMANY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ISOTOPES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; OXYGEN; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; RAIN; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SULFATES; SULFUR OXIDES; SULFURIC ACID ESTERS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRITIUM; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCONIA; GERMANY; WORLD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 25144459996     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050426j     Document Type: Article

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