The environmental geochemistry of aluminium in tropical terrains and its implications to health

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 113, Issue , 1996, Pages 141-152

  Smith, B ^a   Breward, N ^a   Crawford, M B ^a   Galimaka, D ^b   Mushiri, S M ^c   Reeder, S ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b Geol Survey and Mines Department   (Uganda)

^c Department of Veterinary Field Services and Tsetse Control   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; VIOLA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 5844349231     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.113.01.11     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. BAKER, J. P. & SCHOFIELD, C. L. 1982. Aluminium Toxicity to Fish in Acidic Waters. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 18, 289-309.
2. BIRCHALL, J. D. 1993. Dissolved silica and bioavailabilty of aluminium. The Lancet, 342, 299.
3. _, EXLEY, C., CHAPPELL, J. S. & PHILLIPS, M. J. 1989. Acute toxicity of aluminium to fish eliminated in silicon-rich acid waters. Nature, 9, 146-148.
4. BLOOM, P. R. & ERICH, M. S. 1989. The quantitation of aqueous aluminium. In: SPOSITO, G. (ed.) Environmental Chemistry of Aluminium, CRC, Boca Raton, 1-27.
5. BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION. 1986. Guidance on the preservation and handling of samples. BS 6068: Section 6.3: ISO 5667/3-1985.
6. CRAPPER-MCLACHLAN, D. R., KRUC, T. P., LUKIN, W. J. & KRISMAN, S. S. 1991. Would decreased aluminium ingestion reduce the incidence of Alzheimers disease? Canadian Medical Association Journal, 145, 793-804.
7. CRAWFORD, M. B. 1993. PHREEQEV; the incorporation of Model V into the inorganic speciation code PHREEQE to model organic complexation in dilute solutions. British Geological Survey, Report, WE/93/19.
8. CROSS, J. E. & EWART, F. T. 1989. HATCHES - A thermodynamic database management system. Radiochimica Acta, 52/53, 421-422.
9. DEICHMAN, W. B. & GERADE, H. W. 1969. Toxicology of drugs and chemicals. Academic, New York, 88.
10. DELVES, H. T., SIENIAWASKA, C. E. & SUCHAK, B. 1993. Total and bioavailable aluminium in food and beverages. Analytical Proceedings, 30, 358-360.
11. DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEYS. 1963. Nawaikoke. East Africa Series, Sheet 52/4. 1:50,000 (Uganda). Department of Lands and Surveys, Entebbe, Uganda.
12. _ 1992. Lugazi. East Africa Series, Sheet 71/2, 1:50,000 (Uganda). Department of Lands and Surveys, Entebbe, Uganda.
13. DRISCOLL, C. T. 1984. A procedure for the fractionation of aqueous aluminium in dilute acidic waters. International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, 16, 267-283.
14. _ 1989. The chemistry of aluminium in surface waters. In: SPOSITO, G. (ed.) Environmental Chemistry of Aluminium, CRC, Boca Raton, 1-27.
15. _ & SCHECHER, W. D. 1990. The chemistry of aluminium in the environment. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 12, 28-50.
16. EDWARDSON, J. A., MOORE, P. B., FERRIER, I. N., LILLEY, J. S., NEWTON, G. W. A., BARKER, J., TEMPLAR, J. & DAY, J. P. 1993. Effect of Silicon on gastrointestinal absorption of aluminium. The Lancet, 342, 211-212.
17. FAGERIAL, N. K., BALIGAR, V. C. & WRIGHT, R. J. 1988. Aluminum toxicity in crop plants. Journal of Plant Nutrition, 11, 303-319.
18. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF UGANDA. 1957. Kampala Sheet North A36/U-IV. Solid and Drift, 1 : 100,000. Geological Survey Department, Entebbe, Uganda.
19. GOENAGA, X., BRYANT, R. & WILLIAMS, D. J. A. 1987. Influence of sorption processes on aluminium determinations in acidic waters. Analytical Chemistry, 59, 2673-2678.
20. HARRINGTON, C. R., WISCHIK, C. M., MCARTHUR, F. K., TAYLOR, G. A., EDWARDSON, J. A. & CANDY, J. M. 1994. Alzheimer's-disease-like changes in tau protein processing: association with aluminium accumulation in brains of renal dialysis patients. The Lancet, 343, 993-997.
21. HEM, J. D. 1985. Study and interpretation of the chemical characteristics of natural water. United States Geological Survey, Water-Supply Paper, Report, 2254.
22. KENNEDY, V. C., ZELLWEGER, G. W. & JONES, B. F. 1974. Filter pore-size effects on the analysis of Al, Fe, Mn, and Ti in Water. Water Resources Research, 10, 785-790.
23. LINDSAY, W. L. 1979. Chemical Equilibria in Soils. Wiley, New York.
24. MCAVOY, D. C., SANTORE, R. C., SHOSA, J. D. & DRISCOLL, C. T. 1992. Comparison between pyrocatechol violet and 8-hydroxyquinoline procedures for determining aluminium fractions. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 56, 449-455.
25. MCFARLANE, M. 1991. Aluminium menace in tropical wells. New Scientist, 38-40.
26. _ & BOWDEN, D. J. 1992. Mobilisation of aluminium in the weathering profiles of the African surface in Malawi. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 17, 789-805.
27. _, _ & GIUSTI, L. 1992. Some aspects of microbially-mediated Al mobility in weathering profiles in Malawi - the implications for ground-water quality. Proceedings, 6th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME), Barcelona, September 1992.
28. MARTIN, R. B. 1986. The Chemistry of Aluminium as Related to Biology and Medicine. Clinical Chemistry, 32, 1797-1806.
29. MARTYN, C. N., BARKER, D. J. P., OSMOND, C., HARRIS, E. C., EDWARDSON, J. A. & LACEY, R. F. 1989. Geographical relation between Alzheimer's disease and Al in drinking water. The Lancet, i, 59-62.
30. NIST. 1993. Al Standard Reference Material (SRM 3101a). National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA.
31. PACES, T. 1978. Reversible control of aqueous aluminium and silica during the irreversible evolution of natural waters. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 42, 1487-1493.
32. PARKHURST, D. L., THORSTENSON, D. C. & PLUMMER, L. N. 1980. PHREEQE - a computer program for geochemical calculations. United States Geological Survey, Water-Resources Investigations, Report 80-96.
33. POWELL, J. J. & THOMPSON, R. P. H. 1993. The chemistry of aluminium in the gastrointestinal lumen and its uptake and absorption. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 52, 241-253.
34. REEDER, S., CAVE, M. R., GREEN, K. A., TRICK, J. K. & BLACKWELL, P. A. 1994. Standard protocols for the chemical characterisation of aqueous samples BGS, Technical Report, WI/93/17.
35. SCHINDLER, D. W. 1988. Effects of Acid Rain on Freshwater Ecosystems. Science, 239, 149-157.
36. SPOSITO, G. 1989. The Environmental Chemistry of Aluminium. CRC, Boca Raton.
37. TIPPING, E., WOOF, C. & HURLEY, M. A. 1991. Humic substances in acid waters; modelling aluminium binding, contribution to ionic charge balance, control of pH. Water Research, 25, 425-435.
38. _ & HURLEY, M. A. 1992. A unifying model of cation binding by humic substances. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 56, 3627-3641.
39. TRICK, J. K., REEDER, S. & SMITH, B. 1994. The development and validation of a method for the determination of specific forms of aluminium in natural waters. BGS, Technical Report, WI/93/6.
40. WAGEMANN, R. & BRUNSKILL, G. J. 1975. The effect of filter pore-size on analytical concentrations of some natural trace elements in filtrates of natural water, international Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, 4, 75-84.
41. WARREN, A., MCELDOWNEY, S. & BOWELL, R. J. 1993. Biogeochemical factors affecting groundwater quality in tropical environments. In: Environmental Geochemistry and Health in Developing Countries, Geological Society, London, October 1993.
42. WHO 1993. Guidelines for drinking-water quality: Volume 1. Second Edition, Recommendations, WHO, Geneva.
43. WHO 1984. Guidelines for drinking-water quality: Volume 2. Health criteria and other supporting information. WHO, Geneva.