Temporal variations in water chemistry at abandoned underground mines hosted in a carbonate environment

Mine Water and the Environment

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 77-87

  Cidu, Rosa ^a   Biddau, Riccardo ^a   Spano, Tiziana ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abandoned mines; Heavy metals; Monitoring; Sardinia; Speciation; Water chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746878822     PISSN: 10259112     EISSN: 16161068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10230-005-0075-1     Document Type: Article

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