Groundwater or floodwater? Assessing the pathways of metal exports from a coastal acid sulfate soil catchment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 9641-9648

  Santos, Isaac R ^a   De Weys, Jason ^a   Eyre, Bradley D ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID SULFATE SOILS; AUSTRALIA; COUNTER-CLOCKWISE; DISSOLVED ALUMINUM; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; METAL EXPORTS; MN CONCENTRATIONS; NATURAL GROUNDWATER; RAIN EVENTS; RIVER INPUT; SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE; UPSCALING;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MANGANESE; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); METALS; RUNOFF; SOILS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WETLANDS;

CATCHMENTS;

ACID SULFATE; ALUMINUM; FLOOD WATER; GROUND WATER; IRON; MANGANESE; METAL; RAIN; SULFATE; SULFINIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ACID SULFATE SOIL; CATCHMENT; DISCHARGE; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; METAL; OOZE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SURFACE WATER; SUSPENDED LOAD; SWAMP;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATCHMENT; COASTAL ACID SULFATE SOIL CATCHMENT; FLOODING; METAL RECOVERY; SOIL; SOIL ACIDITY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WETLAND;

ALUMINUM; AUSTRALIA; FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; IRON; MANGANESE; SOIL; SULFATES;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 81055133782     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202581h     Document Type: Article

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