Arsenic Pollution in Groundwater of West Bengal, India - An Insight into the Problem by Subsurface Sediment Analysis

Gondwana Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 501-512

  Pal, Taraknath ^a   Mukherjee, P K ^a   Sengupta, S ^a   Bhattacharyya, A K ^a   Shome, S ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic pollution; Arsenic rich phases; Groundwater; Subsurface sediment analysis; West Bengal

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; ENRICHMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 0042654070     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70738-3     Document Type: Article

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