Variability of soil-water quality due to Tsunami-2004 in the coastal belt of Nagapattinam district, Tamilnadu

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-72

  Chandrasekharan, H ^a   Sarangi, A ^a   Nagarajan, M ^a   Singh, V P ^a   Rao, D U M ^a   Stalin, P ^b   Natarajan, K ^b   Chandrasekaran, B ^b   Anbazhagan, S ^c  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Tamil Nadu Rice Research Institute   (India)

^c Department of Agriculture   (India)

Author keywords

ArcGIS ; EC and pH; Geostatistics; Groundwater; Soil water quality; Spatial variability; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

COASTAL ZONE; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; PH; SALINITY; SODICITY; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL QUALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; INDIA; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PH MEASUREMENT; SALINITY; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL QUALITY; TSUNAMI; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; NAGAPATTINUM; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 48449104740     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.01.051     Document Type: Article

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