Monitoring of spatial and temporal hydrochemical changes in groundwater under the contaminating effects of anothropogenic activities in Mersin Region, Turkey

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 101, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 129-145

  Demirel, Z ^a   Kulege K ^b  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Mineral Res Explor Inst Turkey   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Groundwater quality; Hydrogeochemistry; Mersin Turkey; Pollution; Seawater intrusion

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; HYDROGEOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; RIVERS; SALT WATER INTRUSION; WATER SUPPLY;

BERDAN ALLUVIAL AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; HYDROCHEMICAL CHANGES;

GROUNDWATER;

GROUND WATER; SEA WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SALINE INTRUSION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; RIVER; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WASTE WATER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; TURKEY; WORLD;

EID: 14944351024     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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