Biogeochemical and isotopic gradients in a BTEX/PAH contaminant plume: Model-based interpretation of a high-resolution field data set

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8206-8212

  Prommer, Henning ^a,b   Anneser, Bettina ^c   Rolle, Massimo ^d   Einsiedl, Florian ^e   Griebler, Christian ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPES; CONTAMINANT PLUME; DATA SETS; DEPTH PROFILE; FIELD DATA; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE SIGNATURES; ISOTOPIC ENRICHMENT; KEY CONSTRAINTS; MEASURED DEPTHS; MICROBIAL DYNAMICS; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL UPTAKE; MODEL SIMULATION; MODEL-BASED; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PLUME FRINGES; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELS; REDUCTANTS; SULFATE REDUCING; SULFATE-REDUCING CONDITIONS; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TAR OIL;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; DEGRADATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ISOTOPES; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SET THEORY; SIMULATORS; SULFUR; TOLUENE;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; BTEX; CARBON ISOTOPE; DATA SET; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OIL POLLUTION; PAH; PARAMETERIZATION; PLUME; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TOLUENE;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; PLUME DISPERSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NAPHTHALENES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SULFATES; SULFUR ISOTOPES; TOLUENE; WATER;

EID: 70350746502     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es901142a     Document Type: Article

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