Geochemical characteristics of the fluids and muds from two southern Taiwan mud volcanoes: Implications for water-sediment interaction and groundwater arsenic enrichment

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1793-1802

  Liu, Chia Chuan ^a   Jean, Jiin Shuh ^a   Nath, Bibhash ^a,b   Lee, Ming Kuo ^c   Hor, Lien I ^d   Lin, Kao Hung ^a   Maity, Jyoti Prakash ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AEROBIC CONDITION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHEMICAL EXCHANGE; CRUSTAL ROCKS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EXCHANGEABLE FRACTION; FE REDUCTIONS; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; GEOCHEMICAL CORRELATION; INCUBATION STUDY; MAJOR IONS; METEORIC WATERS; MUD VOLCANOES; OXIDATION STATE; PRE-MONSOON; REDUCING CONDITIONS; SOLUBLE SALTS; SOUTHERN TAIWAN; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ARSENIC; CALCIUM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FLUIDS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

VOLCANOES;

ARSENIC; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEWATERING; FLUID COMPOSITION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; METEORIC WATER; MUD; MUD VOLCANO; OXIDATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFATE; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 68949214983     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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