Vulnerability mapping of groundwater contamination based on 3D lithostratigraphical models of porous aquifers

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 447, Issue , 2013, Pages 315-322

  Ducci, Daniela ^a   Sellerino, Mariangela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D models; Aquifer vulnerability mapping; Porous aquifers; Southern Italy

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; AQUIFER MEDIA; AQUIFER VULNERABILITY; BULLSEYE; COASTAL AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; SINGLE BOREHOLES; SINTACS; SOUTHERN ITALY; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA; SYSTEM METHODS; VADOSE ZONE; WEIGHTED VALUES;

AQUIFERS; BOREHOLES; HYDROGEOLOGY; INTERPOLATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STRATIGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

GROUND WATER;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; COASTAL AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAPPING METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VADOSE ZONE;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ITALY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

GROUNDWATER; ITALY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POROSITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

ITALY;

EID: 84873300594     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.12.090     Document Type: Article

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