An aquifer vulnerability assessment of the Benin Formation aquifer, Calabar, southeastern Nigeria, using DRASTIC and GIS approach

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1747-1765

  Edet, Aniekan ^a,b  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Aquifer; Benin Formation; DRASTIC; GIS; Nigeria; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895073050     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2581-y     Document Type: Article

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