Residence times of groundwater and nitrate transport in coastal aquifer systems: Daweijia area, northeastern China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 538, Issue , 2015, Pages 539-554

  Han, Dongmei ^a,b   Cao, Guoliang ^b,c   McCallum, James ^b   Song, Xianfang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic contamination; Coastal carbonate aquifer; Groundwater mean residence time; Nitrate transport; Seawater intrusion

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CARBONATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ISOTOPES; MERCURY (METAL); NITRATES; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; SALT WATER INTRUSION; SEAWATER; TRITIUM; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINATION; CARBONATE AQUIFER; COASTAL AQUIFER SYSTEMS; GROUND-WATER CIRCULATION; GROUNDWATER MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; HYDROGEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; NITRATE TRANSPORT;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

GROUND WATER; NITRATE; RAIN; TRITIUM; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COASTAL AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NITRATE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RESIDENCE TIME; SALINE INTRUSION;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; DOMESTIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; NITRATE UPTAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUATERNARY (PERIOD); SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHINA;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NITRATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84956783262     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.036     Document Type: Article

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