Perk, Marcel van der,

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.

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Water--Pollution.
Soil pollution.
Pollutants--Transport properties.
Contaminated sediments.