The role of Lower Cretaceous sediments in groundwater nitrate attenuation in central Spain: Column experiments

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 32, Issue , 2013, Pages 142-152

  Carrey, R ^a   Otero, N ^a   Soler, A ^a   Gomez Alday J J ^b   Ayora, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GROWTH; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; DENITRIFICATION RATE; GROUNDWATER NITRATES; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; KINETIC FACTORS; LOWER CRETACEOUS; TOTAL ORGANIC C;

ARID REGIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW RATE; GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

DENITRIFICATION;

BACTERIUM; CRETACEOUS; DENITRIFICATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW VELOCITY; GROWTH RATE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; NATURAL ATTENUATION; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PYRITE; REACTION RATE; REDUCTION;

SPAIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84876320324     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2012.10.009     Document Type: Article

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