Geo-environmental quality assessment in Jharia coalfield, India, using multivariate statistics and geographic information system

Environmental Geology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1177-1196

  Sarkar, Bhabesh C ^a   Mahanta, Bashab N ^a   Saikia, Kalyan ^a   Paul, Pradip R ^b   Singh, Gurdeep ^a  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

^b Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited   (India)

Author keywords

Geo environment; GIS; Jharia coalfield; Multivariate statistics

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; COAL MINES; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COALFIELDS; GEO ENVIRONMENT; MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION (MCE); MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

AIR QUALITY; COAL MINE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY; GIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STANDARD (REGULATION); WATER QUALITY;

ASIA; BIHAR; EURASIA; INDIA; JHARIA COALFIELD; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33846619124     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0409-8     Document Type: Article

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