Mobility of arsenic in West Bengal aquifers conducting low and high groundwater arsenic. Part II: Comparative geochemical profile and leaching study

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 996-1011

  Nath, Bibhash ^a,b,c   Berner, Zsolt ^a   Chatterjee, Debashis ^b   Mallik, Sukumar Basu ^c   Stüben, Doris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

^c JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BOREHOLES; EXTRACTION; LEACHING; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

AQUIFER SEDIMENTS; BOREHOLE LITHOLOGY; GROUNDWATER ARSENIC;

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS;

AQUIFER; ARSENIC; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROXIDE; IRON; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MOBILITY; ORGANIC MATTER;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 42149186941     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.11.017     Document Type: Article

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