Groundwater chemistry and redox processes: Depth dependent arsenic release mechanism

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 516-525

  Biswas, Ashis ^a,b   Majumder, Santanu ^a   Neidhardt, Harald ^c   Halder, Dipti ^a,b   Bhowmick, Subhamoy ^a   Mukherjee Goswami, Aishwarya ^a   Kundu, Amit ^a   Saha, Debasree ^a   Berner, Zsolt ^c   Chatterjee, Debashis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTES; ARSENIC RELEASE; BENGAL DELTA PLAINS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CORRELATION STUDIES; DRINKING WATER STANDARDS; EQUILIBRIUM MODELING; GEOCHEMICAL MODELING; GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; HYDROCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; HYDROGEOCHEMICAL; HYDROGEOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION; LONG TERM MONITORING; MINERAL DISSOLUTION; MULTILEVEL WELLS; OXYHYDROXIDES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; REDOX PROCESS; REDUCING CONDITIONS; RELEASE MECHANISM; SAMPLING PERIOD; SHALLOW AQUIFERS; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; CARBONATE MINERALS; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MANGANESE; POTABLE WATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WELLS;

HYDROCHEMISTRY;

AQUIFER; ARSENIC; CARBONATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; DRINKING WATER; ELEMENT MOBILITY; EQUILIBRIUM; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; MOBILIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIEZOMETER; REDOX CONDITIONS; SAMPLING; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WELL WATER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

GANGES DELTA;

EID: 79952624875     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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