The impact of pyrite variability, dispersive transport and precipitation of secondary phases on the sulphate release due to pyrite weathering

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3783-3798

  Kohfahl, Claus ^a   Brown, Paul L ^b   Linklater, Claire M ^b   Mazur, Kai ^c   Irannejad, Parviz ^b   Pekdeger, Asaf ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EROSION; GYPSUM; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SOIL MECHANICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WEATHERING;

DIMENSIONAL MODELS; DISPERSIVE TRANSPORTS; DISPERSIVITY; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIONS; GAS PHASE; GEOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; HIGH SENSITIVITIES; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; LIQUID PHASE; MODEL SETS; MODFLOW; PYRITE WEATHERINGS; REACTIVE TRANSPORTS; SATURATED ZONES; SECONDARY MINERALS; SECONDARY PHASES; SPATIAL VARIABILITIES; SULPHATE; UNSATURATED ZONES;

PYRITES;

CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DISPERSION; DISPERSIVITY; FLOW MODELING; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; LAKE POLLUTION; OXYGEN; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PYRITE; SULFATE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 56349139707     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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