Perennial ponds are not an important source of water or dissolved organic matter to groundwaters with high arsenic concentrations in West Bengal, India

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Datta, Saugata ^a   Neal, Andrew W ^a   Mohajerin, T Jade ^b   Ocheltree, Troy ^a   Rosenheim, Brad E ^b   White, Christopher D ^c   Johannesson, Karen H ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EVAPORATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; ISOTOPES; LAKES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; WATER SUPPLY;

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; BENGAL BASIN; DISSIMILATORY IRON REDUCTION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; GROUNDWATER AGES; ISOTOPE RATIO; METEORIC WATERS; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; POND WATER; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; STABLE ISOTOPE DATA; STABLE ISOTOPES; STUDY SITES; SUMMER MONSOON; TRAVEL TIME; VOLUME-WEIGHTED MEANS; WEST BENGAL , INDIA;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

AQUIFER; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; EVAPORATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; IRON; ISOTOPIC RATIO; METEORIC WATER; MOBILIZATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; POND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECHARGE; REDUCTION; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE;

BENGAL; INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 80455137082     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049301     Document Type: Article

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