Water chemistry of the headwaters of the Yangtze River

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 6443-6458

  Qu, Bin ^a   Sillanpää, Mika ^a   Zhang, Yulan ^a,b   Guo, Junming ^a,b   Wahed, Mahmoud S M Abdel ^a,c   Kang, Shichang ^b,d  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c BENI SUEF UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Major ions; Tibetan plateau; Water quality; Yangtze river

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; HEAVY METALS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; IONS; PH EFFECTS; QUALITY CONTROL; REDOX REACTIONS; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES;

ALKALINE ENVIRONMENT; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; MAJOR IONS; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; RIVER WATER SAMPLES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; YANGTZE RIVER;

RIVERS;

CALCIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYSTALLIZATION; EVAPORATION; HEADWATER; MAGNESIUM; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; REDOX POTENTIAL; STANDARD (REGULATION); WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHINA; HUNAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SHIGU; TANGGULA MOUNTAINS; XIANGTAN; XIZANG; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84942834599     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4174-4     Document Type: Article

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