Arsenic species formed from arsenopyrite weathering along a contamination gradient in circumneutral river floodplain soils

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 208-217

  Mandaliev, Petar N ^a   Mikutta, Christian ^a   Barmettler, Kurt ^a   Kotsev, Tsvetan ^b   Kretzschmar, Ruben ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FLOODS; PARTICLE SIZE; RIVERS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHEMICAL EXTRACTIONS; HYDROUS FERRIC OXIDES; MOBILIZATION POTENTIAL; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; SOIL PARTICLE-SIZE FRACTIONS; SOLID-PHASE SPECIATION; TOXIC TRACE ELEMENTS; X RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; GROUND WATER; IRON; ARSENOPYRITE; FERRIC ION; IRON DERIVATIVE; MINERAL; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; SULFIDE;

ARSENIC; ARSENOPYRITE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; FLOODPLAIN; MINING; MOBILIZATION; SOIL POLLUTION; TRACE ELEMENT;

ALKALINITY; ARSENOPYRITE WEATHERING; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOODPLAIN; LIGHT SCATTERING; MINERALOGY; MINING; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLARIZATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER; SOIL; SOIL DEPTH; SOLID; SPECTRUM; SURFACE SOIL; WEATHERING; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION; ANALYSIS; BULGARIA; CHEMISTRY; SOIL POLLUTANT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BULGARIA; OGOSTA RIVER;

ARSENIC; ARSENICALS; BULGARIA; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; MINERALS; MINING; PARTICLE SIZE; RIVERS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SULFIDES; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84891798010     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es403210y     Document Type: Article

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