Uranium and barium cycling in a salt wedge subterranean estuary: The influence of tidal pumping

Chemical Geology

Volumn 287, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 114-123

  Santos, Isaac R ^a,b   Burnett, William C ^b   Misra, Sambuddha ^b   Suryaputra, I G N A ^b   Chanton, Jeffrey P ^b   Dittmar, Thorsten ^b,c   Peterson, Richard N ^b,d   Swarzenski, Peter W ^e  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^d Wall College of Business   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Coastal aquifer, radon; Heavy metals; Permeable sediments; Porewater; Radium isotopes

Indexed keywords

BEACH FACE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; COASTAL AQUIFERS; COASTAL OCEAN; COMMON SOURCE; DISSOLVED METALS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EBB TIDES; ENDMEMBERS; FLORIDA; HIGH TIDES; LABILE ORGANIC MATTER; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; PERMEABLE SEDIMENTS; PORE WATERS; RADIUM ISOTOPES; SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE; SUBTERRANEAN ESTUARY; TIDAL PUMPING; TRACE METAL;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUIFERS; BEACHES; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ESTUARIES; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HEAVY METALS; ISOTOPES; MANGANESE; METALS; ORGANIC CARBON; PUMPS; RADIUM; SEAWATER; SEEPAGE; TRACE ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

BARIUM;

ADVECTION; BARIUM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COASTAL AQUIFER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTUARINE CHEMISTRY; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; HEAVY METAL; INFILTRATION; OCEAN TIDE; ORGANIC MATTER; POREWATER; RADIUM ISOTOPE; RADON; SEAWATER; URANIUM;

EID: 79960234669     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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