Pathways of acid mine drainage to clear lake: Implications for mercury cycling

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 8 SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Shipp, William G ^a,b   Zierenberg, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Bacterial sulfate reduction; Clear Lake, California, USA; Geochemistry; Pore fluid geochemistry; Stable isotope geochemistry

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BORON; FRESH WATER; MERCURY; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; MINING; PH; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIA; BORON; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MERCURY; MINING; SULFATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 67449095455     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1497.1     Document Type: Article

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