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Groundwaters are increasingly threatened by oil leaks, disposal of hazardous wastes, and landfill leachates migrating through the soil mantle (Wilson et al. 1981; MacKay et al. 1985). Several mechanisms control migration of toxics to underground aquifers (Short 1987), i.e., hydrological transport, adsorption/desorption, volatilization, and decomposition, including biodegradation. The fate and transport of petroleum products in the soil environment are complex and dynamic, including all of the above mechanisms (Grenny et al. 1987; Symons et al. 1988).
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Carberry, J.B. (1998). Transport and Reactions of Petroleum Contaminants in the Unsaturated Soil Zone from Leaking Underground Tanks. In: Rubin, H., Narkis, N., Carberry, J. (eds) Soil and Aquifer Pollution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03674-7_7
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