Quick
Search: 		  
advanced search
 GSW Home   GeoRef Home   My GSW Alerts   Contact GSW   About GSW   Journals List   Help 
Mineralogical Magazine Signup for GSW Email News
JOURNAL HOME HELP CONTACT PUBLISHER SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Mineralogical Magazine; February 2008; v. 72; no. 1; p. 393-397; DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2008.072.1.393
© 2008 Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
This Article
Right arrow Figures Only
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Coombs, P.
Right arrow Articles by Bateman, K.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
GeoRef
Right arrow GeoRef Citation

Session 5: Contaminated environments, toxicology and human health

Influence of biofilms on transport of fluids in subsurface granitic environments – some mineralogical and petrographical observations of materials from column experiments

P. Coombs*, J. M. West, D. Wagner, G. Turner, D. J. Noy, A. E. Milodowski, A. Lacinska, H. Harrison and K. Bateman

British Geological Survey (BGS), Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK

* E-mail: pcoo{at}bgs.ac.uk

ABSTRACT

Landfill and radioactive waste disposal risk assessments focus on contaminant transport and are principally concerned with understanding the movement of gas, water and solutes through engineered barriers and natural groundwater systems. However, microbiological activity can impact on transport processes changing the chemical and physical characteristics of the subsurface environment. Such effects are generally caused by biofilms attached to rock surfaces. This paper will present some mineralogical and petrographical observations of materials extracted at the completion of an experimental column study which examined the influences of biofilm growth on groundwater flow through crushed diorite from the Äspö Hard Rock Underground Research Laboratory, Sweden.






JOURNAL HOME HELP CONTACT PUBLISHER SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 2009 by Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland