List of Contributors ........................................... ix
Introduction to Book Series .................................... xv
1 What goes around comes around: Today's environmental
geochemistry ................................................. 1
Robyn Hannigan
Section I: Today's Environmental Geochemistry - A Review of
New Concepts and Innovative Practices
2 Modification of Goldschmidt's geochemical classification
of the elements to include arsenic, mercury, and lead as
biophile elements ............................................ 9
Curtis L. Hollabaugh
3 Metal ions speciation in the environment: Distribution,
toxicities and analyses ..................................... 33
V.K. Gupta, Imran Ali and Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein
4 International practice in high-level nuclear waste
management .................................................. 57
Syed E. Hasan
5 Phytoremediation of some heavy metals by agronomic crops .... 79
Honey Aggarwal and Dinesh Goyal
6 Environmental geochemistry of trace metal pollution in
urban watersheds ............................................ 99
Seth Rose and Jacqueline A. Shea
Section II: Geochemistry in Surface- and Groundwater Research
7 Geochemical cycling of trace and rare earth elements in
Lake Tanganyika and its major tributaries .................. 135
Aboubakar Sako
8 Baseline water chemistry, nitrate concentrations, and
aquifer sensitivity of glacial sequences in LaGrange
County, Indiana ............................................ 173
Nancy R. Hasenmueller and Tracy D. Branam
9. Agriculture-induced contamination of surface water and
groundwater in Portugal .................................... 195
С. Nabais, M.L. Barrico, H. Freitas and M.N.V. Prasad
10 Provenance and geochemistry of sediments in arsenic-
affected areas of gangetic West Bengal, India .............. 207
Sahadeb De, Chinmoy Chakrabarti, Gargi Chatterjee and
S. Banerjee
11 Rock-water interaction and its control on chemical
composition of groundwater ................................. 229
L. Elango and R. Kannan
Section III: Lithosphere-Hydrosphere Interactions:
Applications of Geochemical Principles
12 Association of dissolved organic carbon with stream
discharge and dissolved metals concentrations in black
shale-draining streams ..................................... 247
George M. Ogendi, Robyn E. Hannigan and Jerry L. Farris
13 Mineral control of minor, trace and rare earth elements
during black shale weathering at near-neutral pH ........... 273
P.A. Abanda and R.E. Hannigan
14 Hydrogeology of uranium-bearing groundwater in forest
catchments in the humid temperate climate: A case study
in the Kanamaru area, Yamagata, Japan ...................... 303
Yoji Seki, Kazuki Naito, Atsushi Kamei, Koichi Okuzawa,
Naoto Takeno and Yoshio Watanabe
Section IV: Geochemistry in Soils Research
15 Effects of incubation time and arsenic load on arsenic
bioaccessibility in three Florida soils amended with
sodium arsenate ............................................ 327
Rupali Datta, Konstantinos C. Makris and Dibyendu Sarkar
16 A greenhouse study on soil-arsenic forms and their
bioaccessibility in two chemically variant Florida soils
amended with sodium arsenate pesticide: Preliminary
results .................................................... 345
Shahida Quazi, Dibyendu Sarkar, Rupali Datta and Saurabh
Sharma
17 Dissolution chemistry of inorganic selenium in alkaline
mine soils ................................................. 363
Shankar Sharma and George F. Vance
18 Factors affecting spatial patterns of vadose-zone nitrate
in south-central Kansas .................................... 381
Margaret A. Townsend and Richard O. Sleezer
19 Using GIS to display complex soil salinity patterns in an
inland salt marsh .......................................... 407
Matthew Grunstra and O.W. Van Auken
Section V: Environmental Biogeochemistry-Concepts and Case
Studies
20 Understanding spatial variability and its application to
biogeochemistry analysis ................................... 435
Sabine Grunwald, Rosanna L. Rivero and K. Ramesh Reddy
21 Use of plants in biotechnology: Synthesis of metal
nanoparticles by inactivated plant tissues, plant
extracts, and living plants ................................ 463
J.G. Parsons, J.R. Peralta-Videa and J.L. Gardea-
Torresdey
22 Phytorestoration of metal-contaminated industrial
wasteland: A greenhouse feasibility study .................. 487
Z.-Q. Lin, H. Hussein, Z.H. Ye and N. Terry
23 Linkages between diet and metal accumulation in crayfish ... 503
Matthew Horton and Robyn Hannigan
24 Relations among land cover, vegetation index, and nitrate
concentrations in streams of the Enoree River Basin,
piedmont region of South Carolina, USA ..................... 515
Suresh Muthukrishnan, Gregory P. Lewis and C. Brannon
Andersen
Section VI: Application of Geochemical Principles in
Environmental Quality and Remediation Research
25 Remediation of arsenical pesticide applied soils using
water treatment residuals: Preliminary greenhouse
results .................................................... 543
Rupali Datta, Dibyendu Sarkar, Hussein Hussein and
Chacharee Therapong
26 Water quality issues in the outer coastal plains: New
Jersey ..................................................... 561
Tait Chirenje, Claude Epstein and Raymond Mueller
27 Spatial and Temporal Trends in Surface Water Quality in
a Segment of the San Antonio River, Texas .................. 591
Andrea Anderson, Rachana Nagar and Dibyendu Sarkar
28 Beneficial utilization of drinking-water treatment
residuals as contaminant-mitigating agents ................. 609
K.C. Makris and G.A. O'Connor
29 Are soils the culprit? Linking natural and anthropogenic
watershed processes to the degradation of the Chesapeake
Bay ........................................................ 637
S.M. Lev and B. Brocks
Section VII: Applications of New Analytical and Quantitave
Methods in Environmental Geochemistry Research
30 Characterizing the surface chemistry of oxides with
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: Assessment regarding
surface oxygen valence charge and acid-base properties ..... 665
M. Ding and B.H.W.S. de Jong
31 Arsenic speciation in soils: An analytical challenge for
understanding arsenic biogeochemistry ...................... 685
Guangliang Liu and Yong Cai
32 Surficial characterization of dioxin in Midland,
Michigan, using non-Euclidean geostatistics ................ 709
Patrick Kinnicutt
33 Black shale weathering contribution to stream chemistry
using end-member mixing analysis ........................... 733
Leonette Cox, George Morara Ogendi and Robyn Hannigan
Section VIII: Conclusion
34 Current trends and future directions in environmental
geochemistry research ...................................... 753
Dibyendu Sarkar, Konstantinos C. Makris and Rupali Datta
Index ......................................................... 759
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