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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 98, 2019
16th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction (WRI-16) and 13th International Symposium on Applied Isotope Geochemistry (1st IAGC International Conference)
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| Article Number | 05008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Modeling of Hydrogeochemical and Ore Formation Processes | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199805008 | |
| Published online | 07 June 2019 | |
Arsenic mobilization in the piedmont area of the Hetao basin: an insight from a reactive transport model
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State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, PR China
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MOE Key Laboratory of Groundwater Circulation and Environmental Evolution & School of Water Resources and Environment, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, PR China
* Corresponding author: hmguo@cugb.edu.cn
Groundwater showed a trend from oxic-suboxic conditions in the alluvial fan to anoxic conditions in the flat plain in the Hetao basin, with increases in As, Fe2+, NH4+, alkalinity and pH, and decreases in Eh and NO3-. A 1D reactive transport model was constructed using a model flow column by PHREEQC to quantitatively interpret geochemical processes related to As mobilization in a 5000 m-long hydrogeological unit. Results indicated that groundwater As concentration was mostly controlled by Fe(III) oxide reduction and As adsorption processes. Observed Fe2+ was the combination of Fe(III) oxide reduction and mackinawite/siderite precipitation. Increasing alkalinity was the result of oxidation of organic carbon, rather than the dissolution of carbonates.
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