Modeling the movement of a pH perturbation and its impact on adsorbed zinc and phosphate in a wastewater-contaminated aquifer

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Kent, D B ^a   Wilkie, J A ^b   Davis, J A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ENVIRON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PH EFFECTS; ZINC;

CHEMICAL PERTURBATIONS; SURFACE COMPLEXATION MODELS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ADSORPTION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PH EFFECTS; ZINC;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; BROMIDE; CARBONATE; DATA SET; DESORPTION; MODELING; PERTURBATION; PH; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM; WASTEWATER; WATER CHEMISTRY; ZINC;

EID: 36749053012     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004841     Document Type: Article

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