Assessing aquifer vulnerability to pollutants by electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) at a nitrate vulnerable zone in NE Spain

Environmental Geology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 515-520

  Casas, A ^a   Himi, M ^a   Diaz, Y ^a   Pinto, V ^a   Font, X ^a   Tapias, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electrical resistivity tomography; Groundwater pollution; Hydrogeophysics; Vulnerability mapping

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; NITRATES; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER POLLUTION;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY (ERT); VULNERABILITY MAPPING;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFER; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAPPING METHOD; NITRATE; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TOMOGRAPHY; VULNERABILITY;

CATALONIA; EMPORDA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERONA [CATALONIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 40049092189     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0844-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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