TY - JOUR
T1 - Composition, distribution and neutralization of 'acid rain' derived from Masaya volcano, Nicaragua.
AU - Johnson, N.
AU - Parnell, R. A.
PY - 1986
Y1 - 1986
N2 - Acid rain (pH 2.5-5.0) from the volcanic plume of Masaya Caldera, Nicaragua, is composed of HCl and H2SO4 in systematically varying proportions. The dominance of HCl in volcanic acid rain makes it distinctly different from anthropogenic acid rain. The pH of volcanic acid rain is largely controlled by its HCl concentration. Volcanic acids are locally damaging, killing vegetation with the conspicuous exception of the shrubs Malanthora and Lantana. These shrubs have the ability to rapidly and completely neutralize acid rain by releasing K+ at their leaf surfaces. The mechanism by which these plants sustain their acid neutralizing capacity is evidently by pumping acidity into the soil in exchange for K+ from soil exchange surfaces. In effect the Malanthora shrub layer is acting as a short-term acid sink for incident acid rain. However, the final acid sink in this system is the base exchange reservoir of the local soils. -Authors
AB - Acid rain (pH 2.5-5.0) from the volcanic plume of Masaya Caldera, Nicaragua, is composed of HCl and H2SO4 in systematically varying proportions. The dominance of HCl in volcanic acid rain makes it distinctly different from anthropogenic acid rain. The pH of volcanic acid rain is largely controlled by its HCl concentration. Volcanic acids are locally damaging, killing vegetation with the conspicuous exception of the shrubs Malanthora and Lantana. These shrubs have the ability to rapidly and completely neutralize acid rain by releasing K+ at their leaf surfaces. The mechanism by which these plants sustain their acid neutralizing capacity is evidently by pumping acidity into the soil in exchange for K+ from soil exchange surfaces. In effect the Malanthora shrub layer is acting as a short-term acid sink for incident acid rain. However, the final acid sink in this system is the base exchange reservoir of the local soils. -Authors
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0022851744
SN - 0280-6509
VL - 38 B
SP - 106
EP - 117
JO - Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
JF - Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
IS - 2
ER -