Environmental impact of landfill on groundwater quality and agricultural soils in Nigeria

Soil and Water Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-26

  Akinbile, Christopher Oluwakunmi ^a,b  

^a SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Chemical land use; Parameters; Pollution; Wastes; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859239041     PISSN: 18015395     EISSN: 18059384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/4/2011-swr     Document Type: Article

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