Pathways for arsenic from sediments to groundwater to streams: Biogeochemical processes in the Inner Coastal Plain, New Jersey, USA

Water Research

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 5532-5544

  Barringer, Julia L ^a   Mumford, Adam ^b   Young, Lily Y ^b   Reilly, Pamela A ^a   Bonin, Jennifer L ^a   Rosman, Robert ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Arsenic respiratory reductase; Glauconite

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GENES; IRON COMPOUNDS; MICA; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVERS; RNA; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; ARSENIC RESPIRATORY REDUCTASE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; COASTAL PLAIN; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; GEOLOGIC MATERIALS; GLAUCONITE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; NEW JERSEY; TERTIARY SEDIMENTS;

GROUNDWATER;

ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; GROUND WATER; HYDROXIDE; IRON; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBOSOME RNA; SULFIDE;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARSENIC; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRETACEOUS; DISCHARGE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GLAUCONITE; GROUNDWATER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; STREAM BED; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TERTIARY;

ARTICLE; COASTAL PLAIN; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

PROCYON;

EID: 78649484868     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.05.047     Document Type: Article

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