Arsenic Geochemistry and Hydrostratigraphy in Midwestern U.S. Glacial Deposits

Ground Water

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 903-912

  Root, Tara L ^a   Gotkowitz, Madeline B ^a   Bahr, Jean M ^a   Attig, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUITARDS; ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; ARSENIC IN GROUNDWATER; ARSENIC MOBILIZATION; COMPLEX INTERACTION; COMPLEX LITHOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLACIAL SEDIMENTS; GROUND WORK; HYDROSTRATIGRAPHY; MICROBIAL OXIDATION; ORGANIC MATTER; PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL DEPOSITS; REDUCING CONDITIONS; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; WATER CHEMISTRY; WELL CONSTRUCTIONS; WISCONSIN;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; AQUIFERS; DEPOSITS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; OIL WELL DRILLING; POTABLE WATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC;

AQUIFER; AQUITARD; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOLOMITE; ELEMENT MOBILITY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GUIDELINE; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROXIDE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDATION; PLEISTOCENE; SILURIAN; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY; WISCONSIN;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 78149340649     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2009.00637.x     Document Type: Article

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