Aqueous crystal growth and dissolution kinetics of earth surface minerals

Application of the techniques and approaches of low-temperature geochemistry is essential for the interpretation and characterization of chemical processes occurring in surface water and ground water. Although numerous techniques of low-temperature geochemistry are often used to characterize biogochemical processes in surface and ground water, the processes of metal binding by dissolved organic matter and crystal growth and dissolution reaction rate mediation by dissolved constituents are poorly understood. Investigations to characterize these processes are important because metal ion speciation and mineral dissolution and formation rates can have a major influence on water reactivity and water quality. Metal ion complexation with natural dissolved organic matter is considered to be a key unsolved problem in our understanding of metal ion reactivity in surface water and ground water. Metal ion speciation controls metal ion chemical and biogeochemical reactivity and bioavailability Knowledge of rates and mechanisms of carbonate mineral formation in surface water and ground water help understand processes regulating water quality. Specific problems examined by this project include identifying the best and most reliable methods to determine the equilibrium metal species distribution in surface and ground water containing natural dissolved organic matter, and measurement and characterization of crystal growth and dissolution rates in surface and ground water containing dissolved organic material. For additional information on this project, see project's home page

REPORTS PUBLISHED 1999-2008

Brabets, T.P., and Schuster, P.F., 2008, Transport of water, carbon, and sediment through the Yukon River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2008-3005. (on-line fact sheet or on-line fact sheet in pdf format, 934 KB)

Reddy, M.M., Reddy, M.B., Kipp, K.L., Burman, A., Schuster, P.F., and Rawlik, P.S., 2008, Peat porewater chloride concentration profiles in the Everglades during wet/dry cycles from January 1996 to June 1998—field measurements and theoretical analysis: Hydrological Processes, v. 22, p. 1713-1724. (on-line abstract or on-line article in pdf format, 244 KB, published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, as a US Government work in the public domain)

Schuster, P.F., Shanley, J.B., Marvin-Dipasquale, M., Reddy, M.M., Aiken, G.R., Roth, D.A., Taylor, H.E., Krabbenhoft, D.P., and DeWild, J.F., 2008, Mercury and organic carbon dynamics during runoff episodes from a northeastern USA watershed : Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, v. 187, p. 89-108. (on-line abstract of journal article)

Halm, D.R., and Dornblaser, M.M., 2007, Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River and its tributaries between Atlin, British Columbia, Canada, and Eagle, Alaska, USA, 2004: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1197, 120 p. (on-line abstract or on-line report in pdf format, 16.8 MB)

Schuster, P.F., 2007, Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1037, 65 p. (on-line abstract or on-line report in pdf format, 2.6 MB)

Schuster, P.F., and Reddy, M.M., 2007, Sediment concentration and percent organic matter (OM), in Schuster, P.F., ed., Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Report 2007-1037, chapt. 9, p. 56-57. (on-line chapter in pdf format)

Schuster, P. F., and Reddy, M.M., 2007, Particulate carbon (PC) and particulate nitrogen, (PN), in Schuster, P.F., ed., Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Report 2007-1037, chapt. 10, p. 58-59. (on-line chapter in pdf format)

Dornblaser, M.M. and D.R. Halm, eds., 2006, Water and sediment quality of the Yukon River and its tributaries, from Eagle to St. Marys, Alaska, 2002-2003: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1228, 201 p., Boulder, CO. (on-line abstract or on line report in pdf format, 18 MB)

Reddy, M.M., Schuster, P., Kendall, C., and Reddy, M.B., 2006, Characterization of surface and ground water δ¹⁸O seasonal variation and its use for estimating groundwater residence times: Hydrological Processes, v. 20, no. 8, p. 1753-1772. (on-line abstract of journal article)

Reddy, M.M., Schuster, P., Kendall, C., and Reddy, M.B., 2006, Reply to comment on "Characterization of surface and ground water δ¹⁸O seasonal variation and its use for estimating groundwater residence times" by R.E. Criss, and W.E. Winston: Hydrological Processes, v. 20, no. 16, p. 3573-3578. (on-line article in pdf format, 102 KB, published on-line in 2006 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd as a U.S. Governement work in the public domain)

Schuster, P.F., 2006, Introduction, in Schuster, P.F., ed., 2006, Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2004: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1258, chapt. 1, p. 1-3. (on-line chapter in pdf format)

Schuster, P.F., ed., 2006, Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2004: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1258, 82 p. (on-line overview or on-line report in pdf format, 13.8 MB)

Schuster, P.F., and Reddy, M.M., 2006, Sediment concentration and percent organic matter (OM), in Schuster, P.F., ed., Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Report 2006-1258, chapt. 9, p. 58-59. (on-line chapter in pdf format)

Schuster, P. F., and Reddy, M.M., 2006, Particulate carbon (PC) and particulate nitrogen, (PN), in Schuster, P.F., ed., Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Report 2006-1258, chapt. 10, p. 60-61. (on-line chapter in pdf format)

Schuster, P.F., ed., 2005, Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1199, 82 p. (on-line overview or on-line report in pdf format, 29.3 MB)

Schuster, P.F., ed., 2005, Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2003: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1397, 74 p. (on-line overview or on-line report in pdf format, 1MB)

Schuster, P.F., and Reddy, M.M., 2005, Sediment concentration and percent organic matter (OM), in Schuster, P.F., ed., Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Report 2005-1199, chapt. 10, p. 74-75.

Schuster, P. F., and Reddy, M.M., 2005, Particulate carbon (PC) and particulate nitrogen, (PN), in Schuster, P.F., ed., Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Report 2005-1199, chapt. 11, p. 76-77.

Schuster, P.F., and Reddy, M.M., 2005, Sediment concentration and percent organic matter (OM), in Schuster, P.F., ed., Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Report 2005-1397, chapt. 10, p. 66-67.

Schuster, P. F., and Reddy, M.M., 2005, Particulate carbon (PC) and particulate nitrogen, (PN), in Schuster, P.F., ed., Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Report 2005-1397, chapt. 11, p. 68-69.

Abbott, M., Einerson, J., Schuster, P., Susong, D., and Taylor, H.E., 2004, Trace elements and common ions in southeastern Idaho snow: regional air pollutant traces for source area emissions: Fuel Processing Technology, v. 85, no. 6-7, p. 657-671. (on-line abstract)

Campbell, D.H., Mast, M.A., Ingersoll, G.P., Manthorne, D., Krabbenhoft, D.P., Taylor, H.E., Airen, G.R., Schuster, P.F., and Reddy, M.M., 2004, Atmospheric Deposition and fate of mercury in high-altitude watersheds of the Rocky Mountains: EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 84, p. 46.

Naftz, D.L., Susong, D.D., Cecil, L.D., and Schuster, P.F., 2004, Variations between δ¹⁸O in recently deposited snow and on-site air temperature, upper Fremont Glacier, Wyoming, in Cecil, L.D., Green, J.R., and Thompson, L.G., eds., Earth Paleoenvironments--Records Preserved in Mid- and Low-Latitude Glaciers: Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 217-234.

Reddy, M.M., Reddy, M.B., and Reddy, C.F., 2004, Scientific advances provide opportunities to improve pediatric environmental health: Journal of Pediatrics, v. 145, p.153-156. (on-line article)

Schuster, P.F., Naftz, D.L., Cecil, L.D., and Green, J.R., 2004, Evidence of abrupt climate change and the development of an historic mercury deposition record using chronological refinement of ice cores at Upper Fremont Glacier, in Cecil, L.D., Green, J.R., and Thompson, L.G., eds., Earth Paleoenvironments--Records Preserved in Mid-and Low-Latitude Glaciers: Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 181-216.

Schuster, P.F., Reddy, M.M., Aiken, G.R., and Shanley, J.B., 2004, What effect does permafrost have on dissolved organic carbon transport to streams during snowmelt, in Wanty, R.B., and Seal, R.R., eds., Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Water - Rock Interaction WRI-11, 27 June - 2 July 2004, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA: London, Taylor & Francis, v. 2, p. 1385-1389.

Leenheer, J.A., Wershaw, R.L., Brown, G.K., and Reddy, M.M., 2003, Characterization and diagenesis of strong-acid carboxyl groups in humic substances: Applied Geochemistry, v. 18, p. 471-482. (on-line abstract)

Reddy, M.M., and Schuster, P.F., 2003, Sediment concentration and percent organic matter (OM) analyses, in Schuster, P.F., ed., Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-427, p. 55-56.

Rosenberry, D.O., Dean, W.E., Duff, J.H., LaBaugh, J.W., Reddy, M.M., Schuster, P.S., Striegl, R.G., Triska, F.J., and Winter, T.C., 2003, Exchange of water, solutes, and nutrients at the sediment-water interface affects a northern Minnesota watershed at multiple scales: Proceedings of The First Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Benson, Arizona, October 27-30, 2003, p. 468-473. (on-line report)

Schuster, P.F., ed., 2003, Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-427. (on-line abstract or on-line report in pdf format)

Schuster, P.F., and Reddy, M.M., 2003, Sediment concentration and percent organic matter (OM) analyses, in Schuster, P.F., ed., Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-427, chapt. 10, p. 55-56.

Schuster, P.F., and Reddy, M.M., 2003, Particulate carbon (PC) and particulate nitrogen (PN), in Schuster, P.F., ed., Water and sediment quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, during water year 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-427, chapt. 11, p. 57-58.

Schuster, P.F., and Reddy, M.M., 2003, Kayaks down the Yukon - A two thousand-mile partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey: U.S. Department of the Interior, People, Land, and Water, v. 9, no. 4, p. 39.

Schuster, P.F., Reddy, M.M., LaBaugh, J.W., Parkhurst, R.S., Rosenberry, D.O., Winter, T.C., Antweiler, R.C., and Dean, W.E., 2003, Characterization of lake and ground water movement in the littoral zone of Williams Lake, a closed basin lake in north-central Minnesota: Hydrological Processes, v. 17; no. 4; p. 823-838. (on-line abstract)

Tian, L., Yao, T., Schuster, P.F., White, J.W.C., Ichiyanagi, K., Pendall, E., Pu, J., and Yu, W., 2003, Oxygen-18 concentrations in recent precipitation and ice cores on the Tibetan Plateau: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 108, no. D9, p. 4293 (on-line abstract)

Krabbenhoft, D., and Schuster, P., 2002, Glacial ice cores reveal a record of natural and anthropogenic atmospheric deposition for the last 270 years: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 051-02. (on-line fact sheet)

Naftz, D.L., Susong, D.D., Schuster, P.F., Cecil, L.D., Dettinger, M.D., Michel, R.L., and Kendall, C., 2002, Ice core evidence of rapid air temperature increases since 1960 in alpine areas of the Wind River Range, Wyoming, United States: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 107, p. ACL 3-1 - ACL 3-15. (on-line abstract)

Shanley, J.B., Schuster, P.F., Reddy, M.M., Roth, D.A., Taylor, H.E., and Aiken, G.R., 2002, Mercury on the move during snowmelt in Vermont: EOS, v. 83, no. 5, p.45-48. (on-line report)

Schuster, P.F., Krabbenhoft, D.P., Naftz, D.L., Cecil, L.D., Olson, M.L., DeWild, J.F., Susong, D.D., Green, J.R., and Abbott, M.L., 2002, Atmospheric mercury deposition during the last 270 years: a glacial ice core record of natural and anthropogenic sources: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 36, no. 11, p. 2303-2310. (on-line abstract or on-line pdf file - published by the American Chemical Society; not subject to U.S. copyright.)

Hoch, A.R., and Reddy, M.M., 2001, Water chemistry at Snowshoe Mountain, Colorado: Mixed processes in a common bedrock, in Cidu, R., ed., Proceedings of the tenth international symposium WRI-10, Villasimius, Italy, 10-15 June 2001: Lisse, The Netherlands, A.A. Balkema, v. 1, p. 533-536. (on-line article)

Reddy, M.M., and Aiken, G.R., 2001, Fulvic acid-sulfide ion competition for mercury ion binding in the Florida Everglades: Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, v. 132, p. 89-104.
(on-line abstract or on-line article)

Reddy, M.M., and Hoch, A.R., 2001, Calcite crystal growth rate inhibition by polycarboxylic acids: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, v. 235, no. 2, p. 365-370. (on-line abstract)

Campbell, D.H., Baron, J., Tonnessen, K.A., Brooks, P.D., and Schuster, P.F., 2000, Controls on nitrogen flux in alpine/subalpine watersheds of Colorado: Water Resources Research, v. 36, p. 37-47.

Hoch, A.R., Reddy, M.M., and Aiken, G.R., 2000, Calcite crystal growth inhibition by humic substances with emphasis on hydrophobic acids from the Florida Everglades, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 64, no. 1, p. 61-72. (on-line abstract)

Hoch, A.R., Reddy, M.M., and Heymans, M.J., 2000, Transient calcite fracture fillings in a welded tuff, Snowshoe Mountain, Colorado: Applied Geochemistry, v. 15, no.10, p.1495-1504. (on-line abstract)

Kile, D.E., Eberl, D.D., Hoch, A.R., and Reddy, M.M., 2000, An assessment of calcite crystal growth mechanisms based on crystal size distributions: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 64, no. 17, p. 2937-2950. (on-line abstract)

Klepetsanis, P. G., Kladi, A., Ostvold, T., Kontoyiannis, C. G., Koutsoukos, P. G., Amjad, Z, and Reddy, M. M., 2000, The inhibition of calcium carbonate fon-nation in aqueous supersaturated solutions--Spontaneous precipitation and seeded crystal growth, in Amjad, Z., ed., Advances in crystal growth inhibition technologies: New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, p. 123-137. (on-line abstract)

Reddy, M.M., and Hoch, A.R., 2000, Calcite Crystal Growth Rate Inhibition by Aquatic Humic Substances: Advances in Crystal Growth Inhibition Technologies, in Amjad, Z., ed., Advances in crystal growth inhibition technologies: New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, p. 107-121. (on-line abstract)

Schuster, P.F., White, D.E., Naftz, D.L., and Cecil, L.D., 2000, Chronological refinement of an ice core record at Upper Fremont Glacier in south central North America, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 105, p. 4657-4666. (on-line abstract
or on-line pdf file)

Doe, B.R., Reddy, M.M., and Eggleston, J.R. 1999, Pollution damage to the Powell Building, Reston, Virginia, Materials Performance, v. 38, no. 12, p. 64-69.

Harvey, J.W., Krupa, S.L., Choi, J., Gefvert, C., Mooney, R.H., Schuster, P.F., Bates, A.L., King, S.A., Reddy, M.M., Orem, W.H., Krabbenhoft, D.P., and Fink, L.E., 1999, Hydrologic exchange of surface water and ground water and its relation to surface water budgets and water quality in the Everglades: U.S. Geological Survey Program on the South Florida Ecosystem--Proceedings of the South Florida Restoration Science Forum, May 17-19, 1999, Boca Raton, Florida, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-181, p. 36.

Hoch, A.R., Reddy, M.M., and Drever, J.I., 1999, Importance of mechanical disaggregation in chemical weathering in a cold alpine environment, San Juan Mountains, Colorado: Geological Society of American Bullentin, February 1999, v. III, no. 2, p. 304-314. (on-line abstract)

Marinsky, J.A., Mathuthu, A., Ephraim, J.H., and Reddy, M.M., 1999, Calcium ion binding to a soil fulvic acid using a Donnan potential: Radiochimica Acta, v. 84, p. 205-211.(on-line abstract)

Ravichandran, M., Aiken, G., Ryan, J.N., and Reddy, M.M., 1999, Inhibition of precipitation and aggregation of metacinnabar (HgS) by humic substances isolated from the Florida Everglades: American Chemical Society, Division of Environmental Chemistry, 217th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 21-25, 1999, v. 39, no. 1, p. 316-317.

Ravichandran, M., Aiken, G., Ryan, J.N., and Reddy, M.M., 1999, Inhibition of precipitation and aggregation of metacinnabar (mercuric sulfide) by dissolved organic matter isolated from the Florida Everglades: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 33, n. 9, p. 1418-1423. (on-line abstract)

Reddy, M.M., Aiken, G., Schuster, P., 1999, Mercury-dissolved organic carbon interactions in the Florida Everglades: A field and laboratory investigation: U.S. Geological Survey Program on the South Florida Ecosystem--Proceedings of the South Florida Restoration Science Forum, Mary 17-19, 1999, Boca Raton, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-181, p. 86-87.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PROJECT, CONTACT:
Michael M. Reddy
U.S. Geological Survey, 3215 Marine St., Boulder, CO 80303
Email: mmreddy@usgs.gov
Telephone: 303-541-3012

Paul F. Schuster
U.S. Geological Survey, 3215 Marine St., Boulder, CO 80303
Email:pschuste@usgs.gov
Telephone: 303-541-3052

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