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Soil and water contamination

This comprehensive, successful textbook, now in its second edition, has been conscientiously updated and extended and includes many case studies, examples and exercises sections, providing undergraduate and graduate students in the Earth and Environmental Sciences with all the material necessary for...

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Main Author: Perk, Marcel Van Der (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton CRC Press 2014
Edition:2nd edition
Subjects:
Soil pollution
Water > pollution
Pollutants > Transport properties
Contaminated sediments
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Table of Contents:
  • PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
  • PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  • PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO SOIL AND WATER CONTAMINATION
  • 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION
  • 2 BASIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
  • 3 ENVIRONMENTAL COMPARTMENTS
  • PART II SOURCES, ROLE, AND BEHAVIOUR OF SUBSTANCES IN SOIL AND WATER
  • 4 SOLID PHASE CONSTITUENTS
  • 5 MAJOR DISSOLVED PHASE CONSTITUENTS
  • 6 NUTRIENTS
  • 7 HEAVY METALS
  • 8 RADIONUCLIDES
  • 9 ORGANIC POLLUTANTS
  • PART III TRANSPORT PROCESSES OF SUBSTANCES IN SOIL AND WATER
  • 10 SYSTEMS AND MODELS
  • 11 SUBSTANCE TRANSPORT
  • 12 SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND DEPOSITION
  • 13 CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATI
  • 14 GAS EXCHANGE
  • 15 MODEL CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION
  • PART IV PATTERNS OF SUBSTANCES IN SOIL AND WATER
  • 16 PATTERNS IN THE SOIL AND IN THE VADOSE ZONE
  • 17 PATTERNS IN GROUNDWATER
  • 18 PATTERNS IN SURFACE WATER-- REFERENCES
  • APPENDIX I THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS
  • APPENDIX 2 ANSWERS TO EXERCISES
  • INDEX

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