Identification of sulfate sources in groundwater using isotope analysis and modeling of flood irrigation with waters of different quality in the Jinghuiqu district of China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1589-1600

  Liu, Xiuhua ^a   Šimůnek, Jirka ^b   Li, Lin ^c   He, Junqi ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (China)

Author keywords

HYDRUS 1D and HP1 models; Irrigation; Stable isotopes; Sulfate; Transport and leaching

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION OF MINERALS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; GROUNDWATER CONCENTRATIONS; HYDRUS-1D; LONG-TERM IRRIGATIONS; STABLE ISOTOPES; SULFATE; SULFATE CONCENTRATIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; QUALITY CONTROL; SOILS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATER SUPPLY;

IRRIGATION;

FLOOD; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; GYPSUM; INFILTRATION; IRRIGATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LEACHING; LYSIMETER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOFTWARE; SOIL PROFILE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFATE; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; SHAANXI;

EID: 84878943189     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1993-4     Document Type: Article

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