A critical review of selenium biogeochemical behavior in soil-plant system with an inference to human health

M Shahid, NK Niazi, S Khalid, B Murtaza, I Bibi… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element for humans and animals, although controversial
for different plant species. There exists a narrow line between essential, beneficial and toxic …

Arsenic and other geogenic contaminants in global groundwater

A Mukherjee, P Coomar, S Sarkar… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Geogenic groundwater contaminants (GGCs) affect drinking-water availability and safety,
with up to 60% of groundwater sources in some regions contaminated by more than …

[HTML][HTML] Molybdenum in natural waters: A review of occurrence, distributions and controls

PL Smedley, DG Kinniburgh - Applied Geochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Molybdenum is an essential trace element for human, animal and plant health and has
played an important part in the evolution of life on earth. Nonetheless, exposure to the …

Potential impacts of shale gas development on inorganic groundwater chemistry: implications for environmental baseline assessment in shallow aquifers

R Bondu, W Kloppmann… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The potential contamination of shallow groundwater with inorganic constituents is a major
environmental concern associated with shale gas extraction through hydraulic fracturing …

Selenite and selenate sequestration during coprecipitation with barite: insights from mineralization processes of adsorption, nucleation, and growth

N Deng, X Zuo, AG Stack, SS Lee, Z Zhou… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Coprecipitation of selenium oxyanions with barite is a facile way to sequester Se in the
environments. However, the chemical composition of Se-barite coprecipitates usually …

Potential impact of flowback water from hydraulic fracturing on agricultural soil quality: Metal/metalloid bioaccessibility, Microtox bioassay, and enzyme activities

SS Chen, Y Sun, DCW Tsang, NJD Graham… - Science of the total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydraulic fracturing has advanced the development of shale gas extraction, while
inadvertent spills of flowback water may pose a risk to the surrounding environment due to …

[HTML][HTML] Origin and implications of early diagenetic quartz in the Mississippian Bowland Shale Formation, Craven Basin, UK

JF Emmings, PJ Dowey, KG Taylor, SJ Davies… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Silica cementation exerts a key control on the compaction and geotechnical properties of
mudstones, and by extension, the style of hydrocarbon and/or mineral systems present in a …

Distribution of Se in the rocks, soil, water and crops in Enshi County, China

M Li, B Yang, K Xu, D Zheng, J Tian - Applied Geochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Previous studies on Se in Enshi County, which is known as the “world capital of selenium”,
mainly focused on typical excess-Se areas, such as Yutangba. In this paper, the distribution …

The pricing of shale gas: A review

K Han, X Song, H Yang - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Shale gas, a new kind of energy, receives widespread attention worldwide, especially after
America's unprecedented success. It has become a hot issue to discuss shale gas pricing in …

Concomitant degradation of complex organics and metals recovery from fracking wastewater: Roles of nano zerovalent iron initiated oxidation and adsorption

OK Abass, M Zhuo, K Zhang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
This work examines the characteristics of fracking wastewater from an emerging shale play
in Central China, and the catalytic activity of nano-sized zerovalent iron (n-ZVI) particles to …