Vulnerability of groundwater in Quaternary aquifers to organic contaminants: A case study in Wuhan City, China

Environmental Geology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 479-484

  Wang, Yanxin ^a   Merkel, Broder J ^b   Li, Yilian ^a   Ye, Hui ^a   Fu, Surong ^a   Ihm, Dana ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

China; Geographic information system; Organic contamination; Urban groundwater; Vulnerability assessment

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ORGANIC CONTAMINATION; URBAN GROUNDWATER; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; AQUIFER; GIS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; QUATERNARY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI; WUHAN;

EID: 35648952848     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0669-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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