Deciphering and predicting spatial and temporal concentrations of arsenic within the Mekong Delta aquifer

Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 579-594

  Kocar, Benjamin D ^a   Benner, Shawn G ^b   Fendorf, Scott ^c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; IRON HYDROXIDE; ORGANIC CARBON; POLLUTION EFFECT; PREDICTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOXIN; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CHINA; MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 84907608197     PISSN: 14482517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EN13244     Document Type: Article

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