Dual impact on the groundwater aquifer in the Kazan Plain (Ankara, Turkey): Sand-gravel mining and over-abstraction

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 241-255

  Apaydın, Ahmet ^a  

^a GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF STATE HYDRAULIC WORKS   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Over abstraction; Sand gravel aquifer; Sand gravel pits; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; AQUIFERS; GRAVEL; GROUNDWATER; SAND;

GROUND WATER TABLE; GROUNDWATER AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER POTENTIALS; OVER-ABSTRACTION; RECLAMATION PROJECT; SAND-GRAVEL AQUIFERS; SAND-GRAVEL PITS; TURKEY;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AQUIFER; ESTIMATION METHOD; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MINING; QUATERNARY; SAND AND GRAVEL; VOLUME; WATER TABLE;

ANKARA [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 84855267092     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1087-8     Document Type: Article

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