Soil and water contamination - Perk, Marcel van der (Leiden, The Netherlands : CRC Press/Balkema, 2014)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-391) and index.
Keywords: Water -- Pollution; Soil pollution; Pollutants -- Transport properties; Contaminated sediments