Acid-volatile sulfide oxidation in coastal flood plain drains: Iron-sulfur cycling and effects on water quality

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1217-1222

  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

ALUMINUM; COMPOSITION; MANGANESE; NICKEL; OXIDATION; PH EFFECTS; SEDIMENTS; SULFIDE MINERALS; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

ACID-VOLATILE SULFIDES (AVS); ACIDIFICATION; AQUEOUS-PHASE COMPOSITION; SYNTHETIC IRON MONOSULFIDE;

COASTAL ZONES;

ACID VOLATILE SULFIDE; ALUMINUM; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERROUS SULFIDE; MANGANESE; METAL; NICKEL; SULFATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

ALUMINUM; COASTAL ZONES; COMPOSITION; MANGANESE; NICKEL; OXIDATION; PH EFFECTS; SEDIMENTS; SULFIDE MINERALS; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

FLOODPLAIN; OXIDATION; SULFIDE; WATER QUALITY;

ACIDIFICATION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; FLOODING; HALF LIFE TIME; IRON SULFUR CYCLING; LAND DRAINAGE; LANDSCAPE; OXIDATION; PH; PRAIRIE; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SOIL CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALIA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOLUBILITY; SULFIDES; SULFUR; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 33144486693     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0520058     Document Type: Article

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