Human impacts on groundwater flow and contamination deduced by multiple isotopes in Seoul City, South Korea

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3189-3197

  Hosono, Takahiro ^a   Ikawa, Reo ^b   Shimada, Jun ^b   Nakano, Takanori ^a   Saito, Mitsuyo ^c   Onodera, Shin ichi ^c   Lee, Kang Kun ^d   Taniguchi, Makoto ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Contamination; Groundwater; Groundwater flow; Isotopes; Seoul

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINANTS; DIFFERENT ORIGINS; FLOW SYSTEMS; HAN RIVERS; HOST ROCKS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN IMPACTS; MINERAL ELEMENTS; MOUNTAINOUS AREAS; PUMPING STATIONS; RIVER WATER SAMPLES; SEOUL; SOUTH KOREA; STABLE ISOTOPES; SUBWAY TUNNELS; SURFACE STREAMS; URBANIZED AREAS; WASTE LANDFILLS; WIDE AREAS;

CALCIUM; CONTAMINATION; EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MINERALS; PUMPS; RAILROADS; RIVERS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION); TUNNELS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; UNDERPASSES; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DOMESTIC WASTE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RECHARGE; RIVER WATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AREA;

CITIES; FRESH WATER; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; ISOTOPES; KOREA; URBANIZATION; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HAN RIVER [SOUTH KOREA]; KOREA; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 62849099765     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.04.014     Document Type: Article

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