Groundwater nitrate pollution in the recharge zone of a regional Quaternary flow system (Wielkopolska region, Poland)

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2099-2109

  Dragon, Krzysztof ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Buried valley aquifer; Denitrification; Groundwater contamination; Nitrate; Poland

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; NITRATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AUTOTROPHIC DENITRIFICATION; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; DENITRIFICATION PROCESS; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION; GROUNDWATER NITRATE POLLUTIONS; POLAND; SULPHATE CONCENTRATIONS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; AUTOTROPHY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HARDNESS; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; NITRATE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; QUATERNARY; RECHARGE; SULFIDE; TRITIUM;

POLAND; WIELKOPOLSKA;

EID: 84874936328     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1895-5     Document Type: Article

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