Natural background levels and threshold values for groundwater in fluvial Pleistocene and Tertiary marine aquifers in Flanders, Belgium

Environmental Geology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1155-1168

  Coetsiers, Marleen ^a   Blaser, Petra ^a   Martens, Kristine ^a   Walraevens, Kristine ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Flanders; Groundwater; Natural background levels; Threshold values

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC INPUTS; BELGIUM; BRIDGE PROJECTS; FLANDERS; GROUND WATER QUALITIES; GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRIES; NATURAL BACKGROUND LEVELS; NATURAL TRANSITIONS; PLEISTOCENE; PRELIMINARY APPROACHES; SALINE CONDITIONS; THRESHOLD VALUES;

AQUIFERS; HYDROGEOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; BACKGROUND LEVEL; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROCHEMISTRY; PLEISTOCENE; SAND AND GRAVEL; TERTIARY; THRESHOLD; TYPOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; FLANDERS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349131209     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-008-1412-z     Document Type: Article

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