Arsenic release from biotite into a Holocene groundwater aquifer in Bangladesh

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2236-2248

  Seddique, Ashraf Ali ^a   Masuda, Harue ^a   Mitamura, Muneki ^a   Shinoda, Keiji ^a   Yamanaka, Toshiro ^b   Itai, Takaaki ^c   Maruoka, Teruyuki ^d   Uesugi, Kenji ^e   Ahmed, Kazi Matin ^f   Biswas, Dipak Kumar ^f  

^a Osaka City University   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEPOSITS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRON; LITHOLOGY; MICA; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; NONMETALS; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SULFATE MINERALS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; WEATHERING;

BANGLADESH; BRAHMAPUTRA; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORE SEDIMENTS; DELTA PLAIN; DOMESTIC WELLS; ELSEVIER (CO); FORMATION MECHANISMS; GROUNDWATER AQUIFERS; HOLOCENE; MICROBIAL REDUCTIONS; ORGANIC PHASES; OXYHYDROXIDES; PLEISTOCENE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; REDUCING CONDITIONS; TOTAL ORGANIC C (TOC);

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; ARSENIC; BIOTITE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HOLOCENE; HYDROXIDE; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT CORE; WELL;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; DHAKA [BANGLADESH]; EURASIA; GANGETIC PLAIN; SONARGAON; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 48049084978     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.03.007     Document Type: Article

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