Controls on arsenic speciation and solid-phase partitioning in the sediments of a two-basin lake

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 9174-9181

  Jay, J A ^a,b   Blute, N K ^b,d   Lin, K ^b   Senn, D ^b,e   Hemond, H F ^b   Durant, J L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

^d McGuire Malcolm Pirnie   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; EXTRACTION; IRON; SEDIMENTS; SULFIDE MINERALS; SULFUR; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ACID-VOLATILE SULFIDE; RECALCITRANT MINERAL; SOLID-PHASE SPECIATION; TWO-BASIN LAKE;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; IRON; MINERAL; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

ARSENIC; PARTITIONING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; EXTRACTION; LAKE SEDIMENT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; POND; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLID; UNITED STATES; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ARSENIC; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BOSTON; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28444498802     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es051216+     Document Type: Article

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