Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

The inability to determine metal species in soils hampers efforts to understand the mobility,
bioavailability, and fate of contaminant metals in environmental systems, to assess health …

Environmental Soil Chemistry, Third Edition provides an up-to-date overview of the
interdisciplinary field of environmental soil chemistry. This classic text covers the …

There is a continual influx of heavy metal contaminants and pollutants into the biosphere
from both natural and anthropogenic sources. A complex variety of abiotic and biotic …

To improve predictions of the toxicity and threat from Pb contaminated soil, it is critical that
time‐dependent sorption and desorption behavior be understood. In this paper, the sorption …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes layered double hydroxides. Among the group of
minerals referred to as nonsilicate oxides and hydroxides, the layered double hydroxides …

Adsorption mechanisms of Pb on montmorillonite were investigated by conducting
equilibrium and X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectroscopy studies. Data from the …

The partitioning (or sorption) of trace elements from aqueous solutions onto mineral surfaces
and natural organic matter (NOM) has played a major role in determining the trace element …

Adsorption–desorption reactions are important processes that affect the transport of
contaminants in the environment. Various empirical approaches, such as the distribution …

This work examines sorption kinetics of Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn adsorbed simultaneously
by four humic umbrisols, as well as the influence of the soil components on the adsorption …