Origin and structures of groundwater humic substances from three Danish aquifers

Environment International

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 519-534

  Gron C ^a   Wassenaar, L ^b   Krog, M ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; PROVENANCE;

DENMARK;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AMINO ACIDS; AQUIFERS; CARBOHYDRATES; COMPOSITION; HALOGEN ELEMENTS; ISOTOPES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ROCKS;

CARBON ISOTOPES; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION; GROUNDWATER HUMIC SUBSTANCES; HYDROLYZABLE AMINO ACIDS;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0029787784     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0160-4120(96)00056-6     Document Type: Article

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