Transport of europium colloids in vadose zone lysimeters at the semiarid Hanford site

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2153-2160

  Liu, Ziru ^a   Flury, Markus ^a   Zhang, Z Fred ^b   Harsh, James B ^c   Gee, Glendon W ^b   Strickland, Chris E ^b   Clayton, Ray E ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE PRECIPITATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; EXPOSED TO; FIELD CONDITIONS; HANFORD SEDIMENTS; HANFORD SITE; LEADING EDGE; RECHARGE ESTIMATES; SNOWMELT; VADOSE ZONE;

COLLOIDS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GROUNDWATER; IRRIGATION; LASERS; LYSIMETERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOIL SURVEYS;

EUROPIUM;

EUROPIUM;

CARBONATE; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EUROPIUM; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILTRATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LYSIMETER; MOBILIZATION; OUTFLOW; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECHARGE; SEDIMENT; SEMIARID REGION; SNOWMELT; VADOSE ZONE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLLOID; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LYSIMETRY; PRECIPITATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SEMIARID CLIMATE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER CONTENT;

COLLOIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPIUM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RAIN; WASHINGTON; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

HANFORD; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84874586088     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304383d     Document Type: Article

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