Provenance and fate of arsenic and other solutes in the Chaco-Pampean Plain of the Andean foreland, Argentina: From perspectives of hydrogeochemical modeling and regional tectonic setting

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 518, Issue PC, 2014, Pages 300-316

  Raychowdhury, Nilasree ^a   Mukherjee, Abhijit ^a   Bhattacharya, Prosun ^b   Johannesson, Karen ^c   Bundschuh, Jochen ^b,d   Sifuentes, Gabriela Bejarano ^b   Nordberg, Erika ^b   Martin, Raúl A ^b   Storniolo, Angel del Rosario ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Argentina; Arsenic; Groundwater; Hot spring; Tectonics; Volcanic glass

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; CHEMICAL STABILITY; FELDSPAR; GEOTHERMAL SPRINGS; GLASS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HOT SPRINGS; HYDROGEOLOGY; ION EXCHANGE; IONS; MIXING; SILICATES; TECTONICS; THERMOANALYSIS; VOLCANOES; WEATHERING;

ARGENTINA; EVAPORATIVE CONCENTRATION; HYDROGEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYDROGEOCHEMICAL MODEL; ION EXCHANGE REACTIONS; SALINE SURFACE WATERS; THERMO DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC GLASS; REGIONAL TECTONICS;

HYDROCHEMISTRY; ARSENIC;

AQUIFER; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PROVENANCE; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMAL SPRING; VOLCANIC GLASS;

ARGENTINA; SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO [ARGENTINA];

EID: 84908170092     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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