Contaminant Geochemistry Interactions and Transport in the Subsurface Environment /

• Main Authors: Berkowitz, Brian (Author), Dror, Ishai (Author), Yaron, Bruno (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geochemistry.; Sedimentology.; Ecotoxicology.; Soil science.; Soil conservation.; Environmental pollution.; Earth Sciences.; Soil Science & Conservation.; Terrestrial Pollution.

This book combines earth science, subsurface hydrology and environmental geochemistry, providing a comprehensive background for specialists interested in the protection and sustainable management of the subsurface environment. The reader is introduced to the chemistry of contaminants, which usually...

Table of Contents:

• Geochemistry Revisited: Selected Aspects
• Characterization of the Subsurface Environment
• Selected Geochemical Processes
• Properties of Potential Contaminants: Environmental and Health Hazards
• Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
• Organic Compounds
• Contaminant Partitioning in the Subsurface
• Sorption, Retention, and Release of Contaminants
• Contaminant Partitioning in the Aqueous Phase
• Partitioning of Volatile Compounds
• Selected Research Findings: Contaminant Partitioning
• Contaminant Transport from Land Surface to Groundwater
• Water Flow in the Subsurface Environment
• Transport of Passive Contaminants
• Transport of Reactive Contaminants
• Selected Research Findings: Contaminant Transport
• Transformations and Reactions of Contaminants in the Subsurface
• Abiotic Contaminant Transformations in Subsurface Water
• Abiotic Transformation at the Solid-Liquid Interface
• Biologically Mediated Transformations
• Selected Research Findings: Transformations and Reactions.