Unsaturated zone arsenic distribution and implications for groundwater contamination

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 6914-6919

  Reedy, Robert C ^a,b   Scanlon, Bridget R ^a   Nicot, Jean Philippe ^a   Tachovsky, J Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Bldg 130 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC CONTAMINATION; HIGH ARSENIC CONCENTRATIONS; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE;

AQUIFERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; COTTON; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PESTICIDES;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; CHLORIDE; GROUND WATER; NITRATE; PESTICIDE; PHOSPHATE; VANADIUM;

AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; COTTON; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PESTICIDES;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VADOSE ZONE;

AGRICULTURE; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COTTON; CROPLAND; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SAMPLING; SOIL ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ARSENIC; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; GOSSYPIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

NORTH AMERICA; OGALLALA AQUIFER; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 35348902088     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es070281b     Document Type: Article

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