Transient groundwater chemistry near a river: Effects on U(VI) transport in laboratory column experiments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Yin, Jun ^a   Haggerty, Roy ^a   Stoliker, Deborah L ^b   Kent, Douglas B ^b   Istok, Jonathan D ^c   Greskowiak, Janek ^d,e   Zachara, John M ^f  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c 1148 Kelley Engineering Center Corvallis   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^f PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION/DESORPTION; AQUEOUS CONCENTRATIONS; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CARBONATE CONCENTRATIONS; CHEMICAL CONDITIONS; COLUMBIA RIVER; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; CONTAMINATED AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRY; HANFORD; INORGANIC CARBON; KINETIC RATES; LABORATORY COLUMNS; LOSS OF ACCURACY; MODELING RESULTS; MULTI RATE; MULTI-SPECIES; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELS; REAL-TIME CHANGES; SURFACE COMPLEXATION; SURFACE COMPLEXATION MODELS; WASHINGTON , USA;

ADSORPTION; ALKALINITY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUIFERS; COMPLEXATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROCHEMISTRY; PH; RIVERS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ADSORPTION; ALKALINITY; AQUIFER POLLUTION; CALCIUM; CALIBRATION; CATION; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; REAL TIME;

COLUMBIA RIVER; HANFORD; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 79953685671     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009369     Document Type: Article

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