Carbon dioxide waters in Iceland: A natural analogue to CO 2 sequestration in basaltic aquifers

Water-Rock Interaction - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Water-Rock Interaction, WRI-13

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 837-841

  Arnorsson S ^a   Hurtig, N ^a   Gysi, A P ^a   Bird, D K ^b   O'Day, P A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICA; BASALTIC AQUIFER; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; GEOTHERMAL AREAS; GROUND-WATER QUALITIES; ICELANDS; NONTHERMAL;

AQUIFERS; CARBONATE MINERALS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRON ORES; MANGANESE; MIXING; SILICA; VAPORS; WATER QUALITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84860155504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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