Mercury concentrations in water from an unconfined aquifer system, New Jersey coastal plain

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 346, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 169-183

  Barringer, Julia L ^a   Szabo, Zoltan ^a   Kauffman, Leon J ^a   Barringer, Thomas H ^a   Stackelberg, Paul E ^a   Ivahnenko, Tamara ^a   Rajagopalan, Shilpa ^a,b   Krabbenhoft, David P ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ENVIRON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloride (Cl); Ground water; Land use; Mercury (Hg); Nitrate (NO3)

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CALCIUM; CHLORINE; CONTAMINATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MERCURY (METAL); SODIUM;

ANTHROPOGENIC INPUTS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; EXTENSIVE PLUMES; WATER CHEMISTRY;

GROUNDWATER;

CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; GROUND WATER; INORGANIC COMPOUND; MERCURY; NITRATE; SODIUM; WATER;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; LAND USE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); UNCONFINED AQUIFER;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 21544461543     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.11.013     Document Type: Article

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