Trends in pollutant concentrations in relation to time of recharge and reactive transport at the groundwater body scale

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 369, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 427-439

  Visser, Ate ^a   Broers, Hans Peter ^b,c   Heerdink, Ruth ^b,c   Bierkens, Marc F P ^a,b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agricultural pollution; Geochemistry; Groundwater age; Groundwater quality; Reactive transport modeling; Trend assessment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER AGE; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; TREND ASSESSMENT;

CALCIUM; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY METALS; HELIUM; HYDROGEOLOGY; ION EXCHANGE; LAND USE; OXIDATION; POLLUTION; PYRITES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CHLORINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ION EXCHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; OXIDATION; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; RECHARGE; WATER QUALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; LORRAINE; MEUSE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 65249154114     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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