The use of hydrogeochemical analyses and multivariate statistics for the characterization of groundwater resources in a complex aquifer system. A case study in Amyros River basin, Thessaly, central Greece

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1-11

  Tziritis, Evangelos ^a   Skordas, Konstantinos ^b   Kelepertsis, Akindynos ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Groundwater quality; Hydrogeochemistry; Major ion molar ratios; Multivariate statistics; Thessaly

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AQUIFERS; CALCIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA HANDLING; FERTILIZERS; GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IONS; IRRIGATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NITRATES; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER QUALITY;

GRAPHICAL INTERPRETATIONS; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYDRO GEOCHEMISTRIES; HYDROGEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MOLAR RATIO; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHOD; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; THESSALY;

HYDROCHEMISTRY;

EID: 84958048397     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-5204-y     Document Type: Article

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