Overview
- Updated and enlarged 2nd edition
- A comprehensive background for specialists interested in the protection and sustainable management of the subsurface environment
- Discussions on additional selected case studies are provided
- Extended bibliography
- References now appear at the end of each chapter for the reader’s convenience
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Geochemistry Revisited: Selected Aspects
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Properties of Potential Contaminants: Environmental and Health Hazards
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Contaminant Partitioning in the Subsurface
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Contaminant Transport from Land Surface to Groundwater
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Transformations and Reactions of Contaminants in the Subsurface
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About this book
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”.
Reviews
“This new edition is specially enriched with data on water rock interaction with inorganic pollutants and nanoparticles. … This book can be highly recommended. It is a helpful resource for those dealing with water chemistry and specifically with the geochemistry of organic pollutants. … it is essential for those working in hydrogeology to evaluate this distribution pathway of contamination.” (Andreas Winkler, Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 73, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contaminant Geochemistry
Book Subtitle: Interactions and Transport in the Subsurface Environment
Authors: Brian Berkowitz, Ishai Dror, Bruno Yaron
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54777-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-54776-8Published: 08 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51777-2Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-54777-5Published: 22 April 2014
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVI, 577
Number of Illustrations: 286 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geochemistry, Soil Science & Conservation, Terrestrial Pollution, Ecotoxicology