Soil and water contamination /
Marcel van der Perk.
- 2nd edition.
- x, 415 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-391) and index.
An introduction to soil and water contamination. General introduction -- Basic environmental chemistry -- Environmental compartments -- Sources, role, and behaviour of substances in soil and water. Solid phase constituents -- Major dissolved phase constituents -- Nutrients -- Heavy metals -- Radionuclides -- Organic pollutants -- Transport processes of substances in soil and water. Systems and models -- Substance transport -- Sediment transport and deposition -- Chemical transformation -- Gas exchange -- Model calibration and validation -- Patterns of substances in soil and water. Patterns in the soil and in the Vadose Zone -- Patterns in groundwater -- Patterns in surface water.