Contamination risk assessment of fresh groundwater using the distribution and chemical speciation of some potentially toxic elements in Calabar (southern Nigeria)

Environmental Geology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1025-1035

  Edet, A E ^a   Merkel, B J ^b   Offiong, O E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contamination; Groundwater; Nigeria; Speciation; Toxic elements

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COASTAL ZONES; CONTAMINATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXIC MATERIALS;

COASTAL PLAIN AQUIFERS; TOXIC ELEMENTS;

GROUNDWATER;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

AFRICA; CALABAR; CROSS RIVER; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 2542418273     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-004-0963-x     Document Type: Article

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