Delineating low-arsenic groundwater environments in the Bengal Aquifer System, Bangladesh

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 614-623

  Hoque, M A ^a,b   Burgess, W G ^a   Shamsudduha, M ^a   Ahmed, K M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SHAHJALAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER SYSTEMS; BANGLADESH; BENGAL BASIN; DEEP WELLS; GROUNDWATER ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; QUATERNARY EVOLUTION; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; WATER TABLE ELEVATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; OXIDATION; QUATERNARY; RED BED; SEDIMENT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATER TABLE; WELL WATER;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 79952624116     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.01.018     Document Type: Article

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