A study on the status of fluoride ion in groundwater of coastal hard rock aquifers of south India

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4167-4177

  Singaraja, C ^a   Chidambaram, S ^a   Anandhan, P ^a   Prasanna, M V ^b   Thivya, C ^a   Thilagavathi, R ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Correlation; Fluorosis; Hard rock; Saturation index; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; DATABASE; FLUORIDE; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; HARD ROCK; PARAMETERIZATION; SAMPLING; SATURATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

INDIA; TAMIL NADU; TUTICORIN;

EID: 84885899475     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-012-0675-6     Document Type: Article

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