Tracing the factors responsible for arsenic enrichment in groundwater of the middle Gangetic Plain, India: A source identification perspective

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-146

  Kumar, Pankaj ^a,b   Kumar, Manish ^c   Ramanathan, A L ^a   Tsujimura, Maki ^b  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Gangetic Plain; Grain size analysis; Groundwater; Health; Hydrogeochemical processes; India; Mobilization and transport; Nitrate contamination

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUIFER; ARSENIC; ENRICHMENT; GRAIN SIZE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; NITRATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT CORE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TOXICITY; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WEATHERING;

BIHAR; GANGES RIVER; GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA;

ARSENIC; FRESH WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHY; INDIA; KINETICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SEASON; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES; INDIA; KINETICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SEASONS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 77951637402     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-009-9270-5     Document Type: Article

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