Identification of anthropogenic features through application of principal component analysis to hydrochemical data from the sines coastal aquifer, SW portugal

Mathematical Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 765-780

  Fernandes, Paula Galego ^a   Carreira, Paula ^a   Silva, Manuel Oliveira ^b  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO E NUCLEAR   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Groundwater evolution; Principal component analysis; Sines coastal aquifer

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

COASTAL AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; JURASSIC; MIOCENE; OUTCROP; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECHARGE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33947577214     PISSN: 08828121     EISSN: 15738868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-006-9040-1     Document Type: Article

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