Salinity status of tsunami-affected soil and water resources of South Andaman, India

Current Science

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 152-156

  Raja, R ^a   Ghoshal Chaudhuri, S S ^a   Ravisankar, N ^a   Swarnam, T P ^a   Jayakumar, V ^a   Srivastava, R C ^a  

^a CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Soil salinity; Soluble salts; Tsunami; Water resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 60349095461     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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