Investigation of rock-to-water release and fate of major, minor, and trace elements in the metabasalt-serpentinite shallow aquifer of Mt. Reventino (CZ, Italy) by reaction path modelling

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1722-1740

  Apollaro, Carmine ^a   Marini, Luigi ^b   Critelli, Teresa ^a   Barca, Donatella ^a   Bloise, Andrea ^a   De Rosa, Rosanna ^a   Liberi, Francesca ^a   Miriello, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b Consultant in Applied Geochemistry ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; AQUEOUS PHASE; CALCITE DISSOLUTION; DOUBLE SOLID REACTANT METHOD; EQ3/6 SOFTWARE PACKAGE; LABORATORY STUDIES; METABASALTS; NEUTRAL COMPLEXES; REACTION PATHS; ROCK SAMPLE; SHALLOW AQUIFERS; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SOLUTION APPROACH; SPECIATION CALCULATIONS;

AQUIFERS; BARIUM; CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CHROMATES; DISSOLUTION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; ROCKS; SOLID SOLUTIONS; SOLIDIFICATION;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; AQUIFER POLLUTION; BIOAVAILABILITY; CARBONATE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; ION EXCHANGE; LABORATORY METHOD; METABASALT; MOBILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPHIOLITE; PERMEABILITY; SERPENTINE; SHALLOW WATER; SOLUTE; TRACE ELEMENT; TREMOLITE; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

ITALY;

EID: 80051935822     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.04.028     Document Type: Article

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