Temporal trends of dissolved weathering products released from a high Arctic coal mine waste rock pile in Svalbard (78°N)

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1025-1038

  Søndergaard, Jens ^a   Elberling, Bo ^a   Asmund, Gert ^b   Gudum, Claus ^a   Iversen, Karl Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE EARTH METALS; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ROCKS; RUNOFF; WEATHERING;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE (AMD); TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER SAMPLING;

COAL MINES;

ABANDONED MINE; BIOAVAILABILITY; COAL MINE; DISSOLVED INORGANIC MATTER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MINE WASTE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION MONITORING; RUNOFF; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER POLLUTION; WEATHERED MEDIUM;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 34247630161     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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