Contamination of shallow aquifers by arsenic in upper reaches of Tista river at Siliguri-Jalpaiguri area of West Bengal, India

Environmental Geology

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1687-1692

  Bhattacharyya, Debkumar ^a   Mukherjee, Pradip Kumar ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic contamination; Channel gradient; Groundwater; India; Tista

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FANS; ALLUVIAL PLAINS; ARSENIC CONTAMINATION; ARSENIC CONTENT; CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS; CHANNEL GRADIENT; CHANNEL GRADIENTS; FLOOD-PLAINS; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; IRON-BEARING MINERALS; LONGITUDINAL SECTION; MAGNETIC MINERALS; RIVER SEDIMENTS; SHALLOW AQUIFERS; TISTA; TUBEWELL; WEST BENGAL , INDIA;

AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRON ORES; MAGNETITE; MICA; MINERALS; MINING; OXIDE MINERALS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WELLS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ALLUVIAL FAN; AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HORNBLENDE; SEDIMENTATION; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TEESTA RIVER; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 67650067630     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-008-1450-6     Document Type: Article

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