Retardation of arsenic transport through a Pleistocene aquifer

Nature

Volumn 501, Issue 7466, 2013, Pages 204-207

  Van Geen, Alexander ^a   Bostick, Benjamín C ^a   Thi Kim Trang, Pham ^b   Lan, Vi Mai ^b   Mai, Nguyen Ngoc ^b   Manh, Phu Dao ^b   Viet, Pham Hung ^b   Radloff, Kathleen ^a   Aziz, Zahid ^a,j   Mey, Jacob L ^a,c   Stahl, Mason O ^d   Harvey, Charles F ^d   Oates, Peter ^e   Weinman, Beth ^f,k   Stengel, Caroline ^g   Frei, Felix ^g   Kipfer, Rolf ^g,h,i   Berg, Michael ^g  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Anchor QEA LLC   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^h ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ GRADIENT   (United States)

^j Sadat Associates Inc   (United States)

^k CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; GROUND WATER;

ADSORPTION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HOLOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; WATER LEVEL;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; HOLOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; VIET NAM; WATER FLOW;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC POISONING; CARBON; DRINKING WATER; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RIVERS; SILICON DIOXIDE; VIETNAM; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER WELLS;

HANOI; VIET NAM;

EID: 84884158648     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12444     Document Type: Article

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