1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 SUPPORTING MATERIAL TABLE S1 – Model parameters and their sources Soil Physics Volumetric water content: 24% (Measured) Soil density: 1.45 g cm-3 (Adjusted) Soil impedance factor: 0.34 (Estimated using the Millington-Quirk model) Water flux: derived from plant transpiration in compartment system experiments (Szegedi, 2009) Geometry: linear Soil chemistry – Initial concentrations (before calculating initial soil solution equilibrium) Solute H2PO4Ca+2 SO4-2 NO3AmmH+ ClK+ CitrateH-2 Fe+3 H2AsO4Edta-4 Mg+2 FeEdtaH+ Diffusion coefficient (cm2 s-1) from phreeqcd.dat and from the CRC Handbook of Physics and Chemistry 0.846 x10-5 0.793 x10-5 1.07 x10-5 1.9e x10-5 1.98 x10-5 2.03 x10-5e-5 1.96 x10-5 0.623 x10-5 8.46 x10-5 0.905 x10-5 8.46 x10-5 0.705 x10-5 8.46 x10-5 9.31 x10-5 Initial concentration (mM cm-3) (based on modelling initial soil solution samples) 7.7 x10-4 3 x10-4 (will increase as gypsum dissolves) 3 x10-4 (will increase as gypsum dissolves) 10.85 x10-3 17.66 x10-3 (set to maintain electroneutrality) 1.62 x10-2 6.67 x10-3 0 0.025 x10-3 1.22 x10-4 0.025 x10-3 1.90 x10-3 0 2.5x10-6 / 0.95x10-6 (G-1/G-4) FeEdta Assumed to be transported and taken up together (almost all Fe and EDTA exist in complexed form Soil chemistry – Initial phases Phase Gypsum CO2(g) Saturation index 0.0 -3.5 (partial pressure) Amount (M l-1) 0.015 10 Soil chemistry – Sorption parameters Binding site Hfo_w Hfo_s Amount per g goethite 5.83 x10-5 1.45 x10-6 Soil chemistry – stoichiometric reactions and their equilibrium constants (the reduced database, PHREEQC formulation, without the definition of species included in table 1, wihout gamma values) The tableau method (Morel and Hering, 1993) was used to reformulate the stoichiometric reactions by making dominant species to be master species. SOLUTION_SPECIES H2O = OH- + H+ log_k -13.998 delta_h 13.345 kcal -gamma 3.5 0 # Source: minteq.dat 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 CO3-2 + H+ = HCO3log_k 10.33 delta_h -3.617 kcal # Source: minteq.dat CO3-2 + 2H+ = H2CO3 log_k 16.681 # Source: minteq.dat 3H+ + Edta-4 = EdtaH3log_k 18.86 delta_h 0 kcal # Source: minteq.dat Fe+3 + Edta-4 = FeEdtalog_k 27.7 # Source: minteq.dat PHASES ########################################################## Gypsum # Source: Bennett and Adams (1972) Soil Sci Soc Am Proc 36:288-291. CaSO4:2H2O = + 1.0000 Ca++ + 1.0000 SO4-- + 2.0000 H2O log_k -4.53 CaHPO4 # Derived from llnl.dat using the tableu method CaHPO4 + H+ = Ca+2 + H2PO4log_k -0.437 CO2(g) # minteq.dat CO2 + H2O = CO3-2 + 2H+ log_k -18.16 O2(g) O2 = O2 log_k -2.8983 # minteq.dat SURFACE_SPECIES Hfo_sOH2+ + H2PO4- = Hfo_sH2PO4 + H2O log_k = 4.45 # Derived from phreeqc.dat using the tableu method Hfo_wOH2+ + H2PO4- = Hfo_wH2PO4 + H2O # Derived from phreeqc.dat using the tableu method log_k = 4.45 Hfo_wH2PO4 + H2AsO4- = Hfo_wH2AsO4 + H2PO4log_k = 0.6168 # Derived from optimized values using # the tableu method Hfo_wH2PO4 + CitrateH-2 = Hfo_wCitrateH- + H2PO4log_k = 12.8 Hfo_wH2AsO4 + CitrateH-2 = Hfo_wCitrateH- + H2AsO4log_k = -0.12 Hfo_wOH2+ + CitrateH-2 = Hfo_wCitrateH- + H2O log_k = 16.8 Hfo_wOH2+ + CO3-2 + H+ = Hfo_wHCO3 + H2O # Derived after Appelo et al (2002) Environ Sci and log_k = 14.03 # Technol 36:3096-3103 using the tableu method Root uptake (Parameters of the Michaelis Menten kinetics) Solute H2PO4Ca+2 *Jmax(mM cm-1 s-1) Km (mM cm-3) Cmin(mM cm-3) Source 1e-9 16e-6 2e-7 Jungk & Barber (1975) 8.5e-9 3.9e-5 0 Barber (1995) 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 SO4-2 NO3AmmH+ ClK+ Fe+3 H2AsO4Edta-4 Mg+2 FeEdta- 5e-9 0.9e-8 1e-9 3.5e-8 1.2e-8 7.5e-12 2.98e-9 7.5e-12 1e-9 7.5e-12 2.8e-5 1e-5 5.39e-5 1e-6 1.5e-5 1e-6 2.4e-5 1e-6 1.5e-5 1e-6 0 4e-6 0 0 3e-6 0 0 0 0 0 Barber (1995) Barber (1995) Barber (1995) Maas and Ogata (1971) Claassen and Barber (1974) Barber (1995) Abbas and Meharg (2008) Barber (1995) Barber (1995) Barber (1995) *Adjusted to achieve the best model performance 3