Groundwater quality in aquifers affected by the anthropogenic and natural processes in an urbanized area, south China

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 107-119

  Huang, Guanxing ^a,b   Chen, Zongyu ^a   Sun, Jichao ^a   Wang, Jia ^a   Hou, Qinxuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b Hebei Key Laboratory of Groundwater Remediation   (China)

Author keywords

aquifers; Groundwater quality; human activities; natural processes; urbanized area

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961589818     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275922.2015.1133730     Document Type: Article

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