River water quality of the River Cherwell: An agricultural clay-dominated catchment in the upper Thames Basin, southeastern England

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 360, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 272-289

  Neal, Colin ^a   Neal, Margaret ^a   Hill, Linda ^a   Wickham, Heather ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Banbury; Chalk; Cherwell; Clay; Effluent; Nitrate; Nutrients; Oolite; Oxford; Oxford clay; Phosphorus; Phosphorus stripping; Ray; River; Sewage; Thames; Trace elements; URGENT; Water Framework Directive; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; EFFLUENTS; HYDROGEOLOGY; NITRATES; PHOSPHORUS; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER QUALITY;

CHALK; OXFORD CLAY; PHOSPHORUS STRIPPING; RIVER; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE;

WATER POLLUTION;

CALCIUM; CARBONIC ACID; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER WATER; ALUMINUM SILICATE; ANION; BORON; CARBON DIOXIDE; METAL;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ALKALINITY; CALCIUM; CLAY; GEOLOGY; POINT SOURCE; RIVER WATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CATCHMENT; CLAY; ECOLOGY; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; RURAL AREA; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHERWELL RIVER; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; THAMES BASIN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AGRICULTURE; ALUMINUM SILICATES; ANIONS; BORON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METALS; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 33646571448     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.08.040     Document Type: Article

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