Discharge of weathering products from acid sulfate soils after a rainfall event, Tweed River, eastern Australia

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2695-2705

  Macdonald, B C T ^a   White, I ^a   Astrom M E ^b   Keene, A F ^c   Melville, M D ^d   Reynolds, J K ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; PYRITES; RAIN; RIVERS; WEATHERING;

DRAINAGE WATERS; METAL-RICH WATER; SUBSTANTIAL ACIDITY; SURFACE SOIL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITIES;

SOILS;

ACID SULFATE SOIL; ACIDITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; OXIDATION; PYRITE; RAINFALL; SURFACE WATER; WATER QUALITY; WEATHERING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; TWEED RIVER [UNITED KINGDOM]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36148985636     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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