Overview
- Presents a completely new integrated approach on contaminant–soil/subsurface interactions
- Deals with a key aspect of “global change” which until now has been essentially neglected
- Authors are renowned experts in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book combines soil science, earth science, and environmental geochemistry, providing comprehensive background information for specialists interested in chemical-induced changes in the soil-subsurface system. Readers are introduced to the chemistry of contaminants that often disturb the natural soil-subsurface equilibrium as a result of human activity. While the soil-subsurface system has in many cases been affected by human impact, the effects of chemical contaminants on the actual matrix and properties have been largely neglected. The major focus of the book is on changes to the soil-subsurface matrix and properties caused by chemical pollution. By integrating results available in the literature, we observe that chemical pollutants may lead to the irreversible formation of a new soil-subsurface regime characterized by a matrix and properties different than those of the natural regime. In contrast to the geological time scales dictating natural changes to the matrix and properties of the soil-subsurface system, the time scale associated with chemical pollutant-induced changes is far shorter and extends over a “human lifetime scale.” The numerous examples presented in the book confirm that chemical contamination should be considered as an additional factor in the formation of a contemporary soil-subsurface regime that is different than that of the pristine system.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Soil-Subsurface Change
Book Subtitle: Chemical Pollutant Impacts
Authors: Bruno Yaron, Ishai Dror, Brian Berkowitz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24387-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-24386-8Published: 18 February 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44802-7Published: 17 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-24387-5Published: 15 February 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 366
Topics: Terrestrial Pollution, Ecotoxicology, Geochemistry, Soil Science & Conservation