An assessment of subsurface contamination of an urban coastal aquifer due to oil spill

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 189, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Nambi, Indumathi M ^a   Rajasekhar, Bokam ^a   Loganathan, Vijay ^a   RaviKrishna, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Environmental assessment; Hydrocarbon; LNAPL; North Chennai; Oil spill; Tamil Nadu

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; OIL SPILLS; OIL TANKS; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION; PIPELINES; QUALITY CONTROL; ROADS AND STREETS; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CHENNAI; CONTAMINATION LEVELS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; LNAPL; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; POLYAROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SUBSURFACE CONTAMINATION; TAMIL NADU;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

GROUND WATER; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

COASTAL AQUIFER; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LEAKAGE; OIL PIPELINE; OIL SPILL; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; UNDERGROUND STORAGE;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INDIA; OIL SPILL; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

CHENNAI; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; HYDROCARBONS; INDIA; PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 85015212499     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-017-5833-6     Document Type: Article

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