• journal_title：Mineralogical Magazine
• Contributor：P. Coombs ; J. M. West ; D. Wagner ; G. Turner ; D. J. Noy ; A. E. Milodowski ; A. Lacinska ; H. Harrison ; K. Bateman
• Publisher：Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• Date：2008-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.1180/minmag.2008.072.1.393
• journal_abbrev：Mineralogical Magazine
• issn：0026-461X
• volume：72
• issue：1
• firstpage：393
• section：Session 5: Contaminated environments, toxicology and human health

d="p-1">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.