Mobility of arsenic in West Bengal aquifers conducting low and high groundwater arsenic. Part I: Comparative hydrochemical and hydrogeological characteristics

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 977-995

  Nath, Bibhash ^a,b,c   Stüben, Doris ^a   Mallik, Sukumar Basu ^b   Chatterjee, Debashis ^c   Charlet, Laurent ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

^d UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLOW OF WATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

GROUNDWATER FLOW LINES; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERACTION;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFER; ARSENIC; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; RECHARGE; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

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

EID: 42149194251     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.11.016     Document Type: Article

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