Differentiating natural and anthropogenic impacts on water quality in a hydrothermal coastal aquifer (Mondragone Plain, Southern Italy)

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 7115-7134

  Cuoco, Emilio ^a   Darrah, Thomas H ^b   Buono, Giovanni ^a   Eymold, William K ^b   Tedesco, Dario ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater geochemistry; Groundwater human contamination; Hydrothermal aquifers; Mondragone aquifers; Thermal cold groundwaters mixing; Water rock interactions

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; MIXING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SALT WATER INTRUSION; SEAWATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; URBAN TRANSPORTATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINATION; ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION; DISTRIBUTED TIME SERIES; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; HYDROTHERMAL AQUIFER; ROCK INTERACTION;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84939947468     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3892-3     Document Type: Article

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