Arsenic in Porewaters of the Unsaturated Zone of an Argentinean Watershed: Adsorption and Competition with Carbonate as Important Processes that Regulate its Concentration

Aquatic Geochemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 513-534

  Puccia, Virginia ^a   Limbozzi, Fabiana ^a   Avena, Marcelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aquifer; Arsenate; Arsenic control; Surface complexation model; Vadose zone

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; AQUIFER; ARSENIC; CARBONATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESORPTION; POREWATER; VADOSE ZONE; WATERSHED;

ARGENTINA;

EID: 84942984942     PISSN: 13806165     EISSN: 15731421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10498-015-9271-1     Document Type: Article

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