A forensic look at groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 364-374

  Rahman, Sayma ^a   Hossain, Faisal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Bangladesh; Forensics; GIS; Groundwater; Spatial mapping; Univariate and bivariate statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649115574     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920801888400     Document Type: Article

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