Arsenic in groundwater of the Red River floodplain, Vietnam: Controlling geochemical processes and reactive transport modeling

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 71, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 5054-5071

  Postma, Dieke ^a   Larsen, Flemming ^a   Minh Hue, Nguyen Thi ^b   Duc, Mai Thanh ^b   Viet, Pham Hung ^b   Nhan, Pham Quy ^c   Jessen, Søren ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c HANOI UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND GEOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; METHANOGENESIS; ORGANIC CARBON; REDUCTION; TRANSPORT PROCESS; VADOSE ZONE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; HANOI; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 35549009659     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2007.08.020     Document Type: Article

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