Coupling of arsenic mobility to sulfur transformations during microbial sulfate reduction in the presence and absence of humic acid

Chemical Geology

Volumn 343, Issue , 2013, Pages 12-24

  Burton, Edward D ^a   Johnston, Scott G ^a   Planer Friedrich, Britta ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Colloids; Desulfovibrio; Goethite; Mackinawite; Sulfate reduction

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL GROUNDWATER; DESULFOVIBRIO; GOETHITE; MACKINAWITE; SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENT; SULFATE REDUCTION; SULFATE-REDUCING CONDITIONS; TERMINAL ELECTRON ACCEPTING PROCESS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COLLOIDS; ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; ORGANIC ACIDS; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GOETHITE; HUMIC ACID; MACKINAWITE; MOBILIZATION; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFUR;

DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS;

EID: 84875166376     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.02.005     Document Type: Article

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