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Arsenic Mobilization From Silicic Volcanic Rocks In The Southern Willamette Valley, Gabriela Ribeiro De Sena Ferreira
Arsenic Mobilization From Silicic Volcanic Rocks In The Southern Willamette Valley, Gabriela Ribeiro De Sena Ferreira
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Volcanic tuffs and tuffaceous sediments are frequently associated with elevated As groundwater concentrations even though their bulk As contents (~ 5 mg kg-1; Savoie, 2013) are only marginally greater than the average crustal abundance of 4.8 mg g-1 (Rudnick & Gao, 2003). Thus, As mobilization must be facilitated by conditions particular to these rocks. Alkaline desorption, anionic competition, reactive glass dissolution, and reductive dissolution of iron oxides are proposed processes of As release from volcanic rocks. Geogenic As contamination of groundwater in the southern Willamette Valley in western Oregon has been well-documented since the early 1960s, and …