Groundwater quality assessment of the shallow aquifers west of the Nile Delta (Egypt) using multivariate statistical and geostatistical techniques

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 95, Issue , 2014, Pages 123-137

  Masoud, Alaa A ^a  

^a Tanta University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Egypt; Factor analysis; Hydrochemistry; K means clustering; West Nile Delta

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FUTURE PROSPECT; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; IONIC COMPOSITION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PH; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

EGYPT; NILE DELTA;

EID: 84897451524     PISSN: 1464343X     EISSN: 18791956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2014.03.006     Document Type: Article

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