Arsenic associations in sediments from shallow aquifers of northwestern Hetao Basin, Inner Mongolia

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2001-2011

  Deng, Yamin ^a,b,c   Wang, Yanxin ^a   Ma, Teng ^a   Yang, Hui ^a,d   He, Jun ^a,e  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^e CHINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (China)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Geochemistry; Hetao Basin; Mobilization; Sediment

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM OXALATE; ARSENIC ASSOCIATIONS; ARSENIC MOBILIZATION; ARSENIC POISONING; CO-PRECIPITATED; FE OXIDE; FINER FRACTIONS; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; GRAIN SIZE; HETAO BASIN; INNER MONGOLIA; IRON SULFIDE; MEDIAN VALUE; MINERAL SURFACES; MOBILIZATION; NORTHERN CHINA; OXYHYDROXIDES; REDUCTIVE DISSOLUTION; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTS CONCENTRATION; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; SHALLOW AQUIFERS; TOTAL CONTENT;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ANTIMONY; AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; DESORPTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; OXIDE MINERALS; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SEDIMENTS; VANADIUM; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; BOREHOLE; DESORPTION; DISSOLUTION; ENDEMISM; IRON OXIDE; MOBILIZATION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SHALLOW WATER; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; HETAO BASIN; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 81155135048     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1020-1     Document Type: Article

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