Depositional influences on porewater arsenic in sediments of a mining-contaminated freshwater lake

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 6823-6829

  Toevs, Gordon ^a   Morra, Matthew J ^b   Winowiecki, Leigh ^a   Strawn, Daniel ^a   Polizzotto, Matthew L ^b   Fendorf, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARSENIC; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CANNING; GARNETS; IRON; LAKES; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MINING; NONMETALS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SILICATE MINERALS; SORPTION; SULFATE MINERALS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ARSENOPYRITE (FEASS); FRESH WATER LAKES; IRON OXY-HYDROXIDES; MINING ACTIVITIES; OVERLYING WATER; PORE WATERS; RESIDENCE TIMES; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACES; SOLID-PHASE; X RAY ABSORPTION NEAR-EDGE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY;

PHASE INTERFACES;

ARSENIC; FRESH WATER; LAKE WATER;

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; EROSION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE POLLUTION; MINING; POREWATER; RESIDENCE TIME; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; EROSION; FLOODING; MINING; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER SAMPLING; XANES SPECTROSCOPY;

ARSENIC; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IDAHO; MINING; POROSITY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

IDAHO; LAKE COEUR D'ALENE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 51949096199     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es800937t     Document Type: Article

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