Origin and mobility of hexavalent chromium in North-Eastern Attica, Greece

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1170-1178

  Moraetis, D ^a   Nikolaidis, N P ^a   Karatzas, G P ^a   Dokou, Z ^a   Kalogerakis, N ^a   Winkel, L H E ^b,c   Palaiogianni Bellou, A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS; BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; CLEAN UP; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; CR CONCENTRATION; FATE AND TRANSPORT; FIELD SURVEYS; GEOCHEMICAL MODELING; GEOGENIC; GROUNDWATER MODELS; HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM; INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY PROCESS; METALLIC COMPONENT; MICRO-XRF; MINERALOGICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING RESULTS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; QUATERNARY DEPOSITS; SERPENTINE SOILS; SOIL CONCENTRATIONS; SOIL FRACTIONS; UPPER LAYER;

CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITS; DESORPTION; EXPERIMENTS; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEYS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; RATE CONSTANTS; SERPENTINE; SILICATES; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CHROMIUM; CLEANUP; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELEMENT MOBILITY; FIELD SURVEY; GEOGENIC SOURCE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; QUATERNARY; RIVER POLLUTION; SERPENTINE; SOIL POLLUTION; TERTIARY;

ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84860384738     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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