Arsenic transport in groundwater, surface water, and the hyporheic zone of a mine-influenced stream-aquifer system

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Brown, Brendan V ^a   Valett, H Maurice ^a   Schreiber, Madeline E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; IRON OXIDES; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTS;

ABANDONED ARSENOPYRITE MINE; AS-BEARING MINERALS; HYPORHEIC SEDIMENTS; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MASS BALANCE APPROACH; STREAM-AQUIFER SYSTEM; UNCONSOLIDATED AQUIFER MATERIALS;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; IRON OXIDES; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ADSORPTION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARSENIC; GROUNDWATER; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MINE WASTE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAM; SURFACE WATER;

EID: 37549005566     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005687     Document Type: Article

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