Natural organic matter in sedimentary basins and its relation to arsenic in anoxic ground water: the example of West Bengal and its worldwide implications
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The OM present in As-contaminated aquifers can have different origins, introduced from anthropogenic or natural sources through water recharge from the surface or liberated from the sediments.
“The OM present in As-contaminated aquifers can have different origins. It can be introduced from anthropogenic (wastewater, fertilizers, oil spills) or natural sources (rivers, ponds) through water recharge from the surface or liberated from the sediments (e.g. previously buried peat layers) 12,24,25 .”
From Role of in Situ Natural Organic Matter in Mobilizing As during Microbial Reduction of FeIII-Mineral-Bearing Aquifer Sediments from Hanoi (Vietnam). (2020) · cites this paper as [25]
Section 6.1 and the Conclusions identify buried peat and other sedimentary organic matter as sources, while Section 6.2.1 says human waste from latrines can contribute locally. Section 6.2.2 discusses organic matter from rivers, ponds and soils entering through recharge, but says this is unlikely to drive reduction in the study area; the paper does not establish the broader range of surface and anthropogenic sources implied by the citing sentence. The indexed copy provides no page numbers for these passages. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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- McArthur, J. M., Banerjee, D. M., Hudson-Edwards, K. A., Mishra, R., Purohit, R., Ravenscroft, P., Cronin, A., Howarth, R. J., Chatterjee, A., Talukder, T., Lowry, D., Houghton, S., & Chadha, D. K.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- University of Delhi (IN)
- Birkbeck, University of London (GB)
- Arcadis (United Kingdom) (GB)
- University of Surrey (GB)
- Central Ground Water Board (IN)
- University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- McArthur, J.M
- Venue
- Applied Geochemistry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2004-08
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1255-1293
- ISSN
- 0883-2927 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2107059050
- Semantic Scholar
- 8805c67833666e18dc87419d65e167a422f3a9c5
- Cited by
- 831
- References
- 78
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 24.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- discovery.ucl.ac.uk
- Licence
- Locations
- Applied Geochemistry (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Arsenic contamination and mitigation
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Mine drainage and remediation techniques
- Keywords
- natural organic matter, arsenic, anoxic groundwater, alluvial aquifer, Bengal Basin, iron oxyhydroxide reduction, reductive dissolution, arsenic sorption, manganese oxide, groundwater contamination, fecal contamination, Himalayan erosion, sediment maturity, West Bengal
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