Identification of the sources for groundwater salinization in the coastal aquifers of Southern Tamil Nadu, India

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2819-2829

  Pratheepa, V ^a,b   Ramesh, S ^a   Sukumaran, N ^a   Murugesan, A G ^a  

^a MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Multivariate statistics; Piper plot; Sea water intrusion; Southern Tamil Nadu

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; AQUIFERS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; ION EXCHANGE; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALINE WATER; SALT WATER INTRUSION; SEAWATER; WATER RESOURCES;

CHEMICAL EVOLUTION; GROUNDWATER SALINIZATIONS; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; NORTH EASTERN REGION; PIPER PLOT; SUSTAINABLE UTILIZATION; TAMIL NADU;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; CATION; CHLORIDE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COASTAL AQUIFER; HYDROCHEMISTRY; SALINE INTRUSION; SALINIZATION; SEAWATER; WATER DEPTH; WATER QUALITY;

INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 84937966447     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4303-0     Document Type: Article

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