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John M. McArthur
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 123
Citations - 14648
John M. McArthur is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aquifer & Groundwater. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 122 publications receiving 13306 citations. Previous affiliations of John M. McArthur include University of Cambridge & Birkbeck, University of London.
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Arsenic poisoning of Bangladesh groundwater
TL;DR: Sedimentological study of the Ganges alluvial sediments shows that the arsenic derives from the reductive dissolution of arsenic-rich iron oxyhydroxides, which in turn are derived from weathering of base-metal sulphides.
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Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy: LOWESS Version 3: Best Fit to the Marine Sr‐Isotope Curve for 0–509 Ma and Accompanying Look‐up Table for Deriving Numerical Age
TL;DR: An improved and updated version of the statistical LOWESS fit to the marine 87Sr/86Sr record and a revised look-up table (V3:10/99; available from jmcarthur@ucl.ac.uk) is presented in this article.
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Mechanism of arsenic release to groundwater, Bangladesh and West Bengal
TL;DR: In some areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, concentrations of As in groundwater exceed guide concentrations, set internationally and nationally at 10 to 50 m gl ˇ1 and may reach levels in the mg l ˆ 1 range.
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Arsenic in groundwater: Testing pollution mechanisms for sedimentary aquifers in Bangladesh
TL;DR: In the deltaic plain of the Ganges-Meghna-Brahmaputra Rivers, arsenic concentrations in groundwater commonly exceed regulatory limits because FeOOH is microbially reduced and releases its sorbed load of arsenic to groundwater as mentioned in this paper.
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Natural organic matter in sedimentary basins and its relation to arsenic in anoxic ground water: the example of West Bengal and its worldwide implications
John M. McArthur,D.M. Banerjee,Karen A. Hudson-Edwards,Rosaline Mishra,R. Purohit,P Ravenscroft,A Cronin,Richard J. Howarth,A Chatterjee,T Talukder,David Lowry,S Houghton,DK Chadha +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the mechanism of As release to anoxic ground water in alluvial aquifers, and sampled ground waters from 3 piezometer nests, 79 shallow ( 80 m) wells, in an area 750 m by 450 m, just north of Barasat, near Kolkata (Calcutta), in southern West Bengal.