Linking organic matter deposition and iron mineral transformations to groundwater arsenic levels in the Mekong delta, Cambodia

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3088-3098

  Quicksall, Andrew N ^a   Bostick, Benjamin C ^a   Sampson, M L ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b Cambodia Development Resource Institute   (Cambodia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MINERALOGY; MINING; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POTABLE WATER; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SULFIDE MINERALS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; WATER; WATER WELLS; WELLS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

AQUEOUS CONCENTRATIONS; ARSENIC LEVELS; C LEVELS; CAMBODIA; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; DRILLED CORES; DRILLED WELLS; DRINKING WATER WELLS; FE OXIDES; FE REDUCTIONS; GEOCHEMICAL FACTORS; IRON MINERALS; LINKING; MEKONG RIVERS; MINERAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ORGANIC; ORGANIC MATTERS; PORE WATERS; REDUCING CONDITIONS; REDUCTIVE DISSOLUTIONS; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS; SOLUTION CONCENTRATIONS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF;

MINERALS;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CANCER; DISSOLUTION; HEALTH RISK; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; IRON OXIDE; ORGANIC MATTER; POREWATER; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFATE;

ASIA; EURASIA; MEKONG DELTA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 54449089843     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.06.027     Document Type: Article

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