Aquifer vulnerability assessment to heavy metals using ordinal logistic regression

Ground Water

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 200-214

  Twarakavi, Navin K C ^a   Kaluarachchi, Jagath J ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; HEAVY METALS; HYDROLOGY; LOGISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

AQUIFER VULNERABILITY; CONTAMINAT LEVELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; SOIL HYDROLOGIC GROUP (SHG);

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; HEAVY METAL; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; PROBABILITY; VULNERABILITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15944395135     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2005.0001.x     Document Type: Article

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