Geophysical monitoring and reactive transport modeling of ureolytically-driven calcium carbonate precipitation

Geochemical Transactions

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wu, Yuxin ^a   Ajo Franklin, Jonathan B ^a   Spycher, Nicolas ^a   Hubbard, Susan S ^a   Zhang, Guoxiang ^b   Williams, Kenneth H ^a   Taylor, Joanna ^c   Fujita, Yoshiko ^d   Smith, Robert ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALCIUM CARBONATE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; HYDROLYSIS; IN SITU TEST; ION EXCHANGE; LABORATORY METHOD; MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RADIONUCLIDE; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REMEDIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRACE METAL; UREA;

EID: 80053172423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14674866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1467-4866-12-7     Document Type: Article

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