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A hydrogeochemical investigation of metalliferous coal pile runoff and its interaction with soil and groundwater

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dc.contributor Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences
dc.contributor Martens, David C.
dc.contributor Daniels, W. Lee
dc.contributor Dillard, John G.
dc.contributor Zelazny, Lucian W.
dc.contributor Bertsch, Paul M.
dc.creator Anderson, Michael A.
dc.date 2014-03-14T21:18:57Z
dc.date 2014-03-14T21:18:57Z
dc.date 1990-05-07
dc.date 2005-09-16
dc.date 2005-09-16
dc.date 2005-09-16
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T08:10:33Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T08:10:33Z
dc.identifier etd-09162005-115028
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39371
dc.identifier http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09162005-115028/
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/276636
dc.description Highly acidic and metal-rich runoff from coal storage facilities can have a dramatic impact on local surface and ground water quality. In order to identify important reactions governing metal transport within subsurface environments subject to infiltration of coal pile runoff, samples of uncontaminated subsoil and aquifer materials adjacent to the D-Area coal stockpile runoff containment basin at the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site were collected and subjected to leaching with the acidic, metalliferous coal pile runoff. Columns were packed to bulk densities of 1.5 Mg m³ and subjected to steady, saturated flows of 0.2 and 1.3 cm h⁻¹, Effluent was collected and multicomponent transport through the subsoil and aquifer materials evaluated. Observed transport was then related to soil chemical and mineralogical properties. Mass balance calculations, a sequential dissolution scheme in which column leaching was terminated and elements partitioned to aqueous, <i>M</i> NH₄CI, and ammonium oxalate in the dark (Ox)-extractable phases, and mineralogical and surface chemical analyses were used to identify important chemical processes and mineralogical alterations.
dc.description Ph. D.
dc.format xi, 124 leaves
dc.format BTD
dc.format application/pdf
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher Virginia Tech
dc.relation OCLC# 23440233
dc.relation LD5655.V856_1990.A6335.pdf
dc.rights In Copyright
dc.rights http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subject Water quality
dc.subject coal storage facilities
dc.subject LD5655.V856 1990.A6335
dc.subject Coal ash sites
dc.subject Mine drainage
dc.title A hydrogeochemical investigation of metalliferous coal pile runoff and its interaction with soil and groundwater
dc.type Dissertation
dc.type Text


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