Occurrence of pesticides in transboundary aquifers of North-eastern Greece

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 441, Issue , 2012, Pages 41-48

  Vryzas, Zisis ^a   Papadakis, Emmanuel N ^b   Vassiliou, George ^a   Papadopoulou Mourkidou, Euphemia ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Evros, Greece; Groundwater age dating; Monitoring; Pesticides; Tritium

Indexed keywords

ALACHLOR; ARTESIAN WELL; ATRAZINE CONCENTRATIONS; CATABOLIC PROCESS; DEEP GROUNDWATERS; DESETHYLATRAZINE; DESISOPROPYLATRAZINE; EVROS, GREECE; GROUNDWATER MONITORING; METOLACHLORS; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; PHREATIC; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SOIL WATER; TRANSBOUNDARY AQUIFERS;

AQUIFERS; BOREHOLES; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HERBICIDES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MONITORING; PESTICIDES; SOIL MOISTURE; TRITIUM; WELLS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

2 AMINO 4 CHLORO 6 ETHYLAMINO 1,3,5 TRIAZINE; ALACHLOR; ATRAZINE; CAFFEINE; DEETHYLATRAZINE; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; WELL WATER;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARTESIAN WELL; BOREHOLE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SOIL WATER; TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION; TRITIUM;

AGE; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOW; GREECE; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; EVROS; GREECE;

EID: 84868227300     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.09.074     Document Type: Article

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