Agricultural chemical movement through a field-size watershed in Iowa: Subsurface hydrology and distribution of nitrate in groundwater

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1039-1047

  Steinheimer, Thomas R ^a   Scoggin, Kenwood D ^a   Kramer, Larry A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; DRAINAGE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROLOGY; NITRATES; NITROGEN REMOVAL;

AUTOTROPHIC BACTERIA; LOESS; VADOSE ZONE;

WATERSHEDS;

AMMONIA; GROUND WATER; NITRATE;

GROUNDWATER; NITRATE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER; NITRATE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; VADOSE ZONE; WATERSHED;

ADSORPTION; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHY; LANDSCAPING; LEACHING; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

USA, IOWA;

EID: 0032523047     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es970598j     Document Type: Article

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