Application of GIS and hydrogeochemistry of groundwater pollution status of Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, India

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4429-4442

  Venkatramanan, S ^a,b   Chung, S Y ^a   Ramkumar, T ^b   Gnanachandrasamy, G ^b   Vasudevan, S ^b   Lee, S Y ^c  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^b ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Correlation and two way joining cluster analyses; Gibbs plot; IDW; Modified Hill Piper; Wilcox classification

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AQUIFERS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; IRRIGATION; JOINING; QUALITY CONTROL; SALT WATER INTRUSION; SEAWATER; WATER QUALITY; WEATHERING;

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; CHEMICAL COMPONENT; GIBBS PLOT; HYDRO GEOCHEMISTRIES; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING; TWO WAYS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84925481438     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3728-1     Document Type: Article

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