A GIS-based DRASTIC model for assessing groundwater vulnerability in hard rock granitic aquifer

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1385-1401

  Shekhar, Shashank ^a   Pandey, A C ^a   Tirkey, Anamika Shalini ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Daltonganj; DRASTIC; GIS; Groundwater vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893647368     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-014-1285-2     Document Type: Article

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