Validation of reactive model assumptions with isotope data: Application to the dover case

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3289-3295

  Atteia, O ^a   Franceschi, M ^a   Dupuy, A ^a  

^a Institut EGID Bordeaux 3   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER CONTAMINATIONS; FIELD DATUM; GEOCHEMICAL MODELS; ISOTOPE DATUM; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; NEW APPROACHES; REACTION CHAINS; REACTIVE MODELS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELS; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS;

AQUIFERS; DEGRADATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEN BONDS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; REMEDIATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ISOTOPES;

ISOTOPE;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ISOTOPIC RATIO; MODEL VALIDATION; PLUME; REDOX CONDITIONS; REMEDIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; EVOLUTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PLUME; SIMULATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; AIR; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

DELAWARE; DOVER [DELAWARE]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DELAWARE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; ISOTOPES; KINETICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 48649099665     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es071269m     Document Type: Article

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