Acidification and buffering mechanisms in acid sulfate soil wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2591-2597

  Glover, Fiona ^a   Whitworth, Kerry L ^b   Kappen, Peter ^a,c   Baldwin, Darren S ^b   Rees, Gavin N ^b   Webb, John A ^a   Silvester, Ewen ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURRAY DARLING FRESHWATER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c Centre for Materials and Surface Science   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID GENERATION; ACID NEUTRALIZING CAPACITY; ACID SULFATE SOILS; AUSTRALIA; FREE ACIDS; INLAND WETLANDS; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; LAKES; OXIDATION; PROTONS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WETLANDS;

ACIDIFICATION;

CHLORIDE; FERRIC ION; OXIDE; PROTON; SULFATE;

ACID SULFATE SOIL; ACIDIFICATION; BUFFERING; CHLORIDE; NEUTRALIZATION; OXIDATION; WETLAND;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; LAGOON; OXIDATION; PH; SEDIMENT; SOIL; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SULFATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 79953244343     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103535k     Document Type: Article

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