River water quality across the Himalayan regions: elemental concentrations in headwaters of Yarlung Tsangbo, Indus and Ganges River

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4151-4163

  Zhang, Yulan ^a,b   Sillanpää, Mika ^a   Li, Chaoliu ^c   Guo, Junming ^c   Qu, Bin ^a,c   Kang, Shichang ^b,c  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Climate change; Heavy metals; Himalayas; Tibetan Plateau; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ARSENIC; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAVY METALS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY;

ALKALINE ENVIRONMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; HIMALAYAS; RIVER WATER SAMPLES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

EID: 84925483921     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3702-y     Document Type: Article

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