Ground water quality: Fracture-controlled nitrate and atrazine transport in four Iowa till units

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 227-236

  Helmke, Martin F ^a   Simpkins, William W ^b   Horton, Robert ^b  

^a DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; DIFFUSION; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NITRATES; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

CONTAMINATED AQUIFERS; MOBILE-IMMOBILE MODEL (MIM); PENTAFLUOROFOENZOIC ACID (PFBA); RETARDATION;

GROUNDWATER;

1,4 PIPERAZINEDIETHANESULFONIC ACID; AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; ATRAZINE; BENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FLUORINE DERIVATIVE; NITRATE; PENTAFLUOROBENZOIC ACID; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM BROMIDE; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SURFACE WATER; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HERBICIDE;

ADSORPTION; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; DEGRADATION; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HALF LIFE TIME; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; TILLAGE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; AGRICULTURE; BIOREMEDIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOLUBILITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ILLINOIA;

AGRICULTURE; ATRAZINE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HERBICIDES; IOWA; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOLUBILITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 12344256127     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2005.0227     Document Type: Article

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