Mineralogy and geochemistry of shallow sediments of Sonargaon, Bangladesh and implications for arsenic dynamics: Focusing on the role of organic matter

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 587-599

  Seddique, Ashraf Ali ^a,b   Masuda, Harue ^b   Mitamura, Muneki ^b   Shinoda, Keiji ^b   Yamanaka, Toshiro ^c   Nakaya, Shinji ^d   Ahmed, Kazi Matin ^e  

^a JASHORE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS CONTENT; AS DISTRIBUTION; BANGLADESH; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; FINE SAND; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; LITHOFACIES; NEAR-SURFACE; ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC PHASIS; REDOX CONDITION; SEQUENTIAL CHEMICAL EXTRACTION; SILTY-CLAY; STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES; STUDY AREAS; TOTAL ORGANIC C; WATER TABLE FLUCTUATIONS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; MICA; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ARSENIC; BIOTITE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPOSITION; DIAGENESIS; EXTRACTION METHOD; GROUNDWATER; HYDRATION; LITHOFACIES; MINERALOGY; MUSCOVITE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILTY CLAY; WATER TABLE;

BANGLADESH; DHAKA [BANGLADESH]; SONARGAON;

EID: 79952624395     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.01.016     Document Type: Article

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