Spatial and temporal evolutions of groundwater arsenic approximately along the flow path in the Hetao basin, Inner Mongolia

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 3070-3079

  Guo, HuaMing ^a,b   Zhang, Yang ^b   Jia, YongFeng ^a,b   Zhao, Kai ^a,b   Kim, Kangjoo ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c Kunsan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

aquifer; As species; evaporation; hydrogeochemistry; water rock interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883447543     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-5773-7     Document Type: Article

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