Reduced inorganic sulfur speciation in drain sediments from acid sulfate soil landscapes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 888-893

  Burton, Edward D ^a   Bush, Richard T ^a   Sullivan, Leigh A ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; IRON COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; PYRITES; SULFIDE MINERALS;

ACID-VOLATILE SULFIDE (AVS); DRAIN SEDIMENTS; INORGANIC SULFUR (RIS) SPECIATION; POLYSULFIDE;

SEDIMENTS;

ACID VOLATILE SULFIDE; PYRITE; SULFATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COASTAL ZONES; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; IRON COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; PYRITES; SEDIMENTS; SULFIDE MINERALS;

SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LANDSCAPE; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATION; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION; SULFATES; SULFUR;

EID: 32344451017     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0516763     Document Type: Article

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