Geochemical processes underlying a sharp contrast in groundwater arsenic concentrations in a village on the Red River delta, Vietnam

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3143-3154

  Eiche, Elisabeth ^a   Neumann, Thomas ^a   Berg, Michael ^b   Weinman, Beth ^c   van Geen, Alexander ^d   Norra, Stefan ^a   Berner, Zsolt ^a   Trang, Pham Thi Kim ^e   Viet, Pham Hung ^e   Stüben, Doris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^e VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; CALCITE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRON COMPOUNDS; IRON ORES; LEACHING; LITHOLOGY; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILT; SULFIDE MINERALS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS;

AMORPHOUS; ARSENIC CONCENTRATIONS; CONSISTENT; DEPTH RANGES; GEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; HIGH CONCENTRATIONS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC; ORGANIC MATTERS; OXYHYDROXIDES; RED RIVER DELTAS; REDOX STATES; REDUCING CONDITIONS; REDUCTIVE DISSOLUTIONS; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTIONS; SHARP CONTRASTS; SPATIAL VARIABILITIES; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES; VIETNAM;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; ARSENIC; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EXTRACTION METHOD; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; IRON; LEACHING; PEAT; SAND; SIDERITE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; VILLAGE; VIVIANITE;

ASIA; EURASIA; RED RIVER DELTA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 54449085896     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.06.023     Document Type: Article

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