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Contaminant Geochemistry: Interactions and Transport in the Subsurface Environment

By Brian Berkowitz , Ishai Dror , Bruno Yaron (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2014
ISBN
978-3-642-54776-8, 978-3-642-54777-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-54777-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19829423 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
577\582
Time added
2014-06-12 06:00:00
Geochemistry; Soil Science & Conservation; Terrest

Description

In this updated and expanded second edition, new literature has been added on contaminant fate in the soil-subsurface environment. In particular, more data on the behavior of inorganic contaminants and on engineered nanomaterials were included, the latter comprising a group of “emerging contaminants” that may reach the soil and subsurface zones. New chapters are devoted to a new perspective of contaminant geochemistry, namely irreversible changes in pristine land and subsurface systems following chemical contamination. Two chapters were added on this topic, focusing attention on the impact of chemical contaminants on the matrix and properties of both liquid and solid phases of soil and subsurface domains. Contaminant impacts on irreversible changes occurring in groundwater are discussed and their irreversible changes on the porous medium solid phase are surveyed. In contrast to the geological time scale controlling natural changes of porous media liquid and solid phases, the time scale associated with chemical pollutant induced changes is far shorter and extends over a “human lifetime scale”.

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