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Abiotic Contaminant Transformations in Subsurface Water

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Natural subsurface water is considered here as the (bulk) body of water that completely or partially fills the porous matrix, from the soil surface to the groundwater zone. This water may be flowing or relatively static, having accumulated above an impermeable subsurface.

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  1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel

    Brian Berkowitz, Ishai Dror & Bruno Yaron

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Berkowitz, B., Dror, I., Yaron, B. (2014). Abiotic Contaminant Transformations in Subsurface Water. In: Contaminant Geochemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54777-5_13

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