Understanding groundwater chemistry using multivariate statistics techniques to the study of contamination in the Korba unconfined aquifer system of Cap-Bon (North-east of Tunisia)

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 89, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-15

  Zghibi, Adel ^a,b   Merzougui, Amira ^a   Zouhri, Lahcen ^b,c   Tarhouni, Jamila ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

^b Institute Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais   (France)

^c INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE LASALLE BEAUVAIS   (France)

Author keywords

Coastal aquifer; Groundwater salinization; Hydrogeochemistry; NE Tunisia; Seawater intrusion; Statistics

Indexed keywords

COASTAL AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; IRRIGATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SALINE INTRUSION; SALINIZATION; UNCONFINED AQUIFER;

CAPE BON; NABEUL; TUNISIA;

EID: 84885334411     PISSN: 1464343X     EISSN: 18791956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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