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Impacts of runoff from sulfuric soils on sediment chemistry in an estuarine lake

Date

Authors

MacDonald, Bennett

Smith, Jodie

Keene, Annabelle F

Tunks, Mark

Kinsela, Andrew

White, Ian

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

The impact of runoff from sulfuric soils in the heavily drained Cudgen Lake floodplain, eastern Australia on water quality and downstream coastal lake sediments has been examined. The oxidation of sulfidic soils and the transformation into sulfuric soils

Keywords

Keywords: Catchments; Coastal zones; Floods; Runoff; Sediments; Oxidation transforms; Sulfidic soils; Soils; aluminum; arsenic; cadmium; chromium; iron; lead; manganese; mercury; metal; organic matter; runoff; sulfate; sulfur; zinc; estuarine sediment; oxidation; p Acid; Catchment development; Metals; Monosulfides; Oxidation products; Porewaters; Pyrite; Sediments; Sulfuric soils

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/78708

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Science of the Total Environment

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.02.016