Iron and arsenic cycling in intertidal surface sediments during wetland remediation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2179-2185

  Johnston, Scott G ^a   Keene, Annabelle F ^a   Burton, Edward D ^a   Bush, Richard T ^a   Sullivan, Leigh A ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS PHASE; ARSENIC MOBILIZATION; AS SPECIATION; CHEMICAL EXTRACTIONS; FERRIHYDRITES; JAROSITES; NATURAL GROUNDWATER; NEUTRAL PH; REDOX INTERFACE; REDUCTIVE DISSOLUTION; SCHWERTMANNITE; SEM; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; XRD;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ARSENIC; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; IRON COMPOUNDS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SORPTION; WETLANDS;

WATER AERATION;

ARSENIC; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERROUS ION; GROUND WATER; IRON;

ARSENIC; FERRIHYDRITE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; IRON; MOBILIZATION; PH; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCHWERTMANNITE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SURFACE WATER; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; WETLAND; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

AERATION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; MINERALOGY; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; PHASE PARTITIONING; PRECIPITATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; SOLID; WETLAND; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARSENIC; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

EID: 79953839254     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103403n     Document Type: Article

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