Assessment of fluoride contaminations in groundwater of hard rock aquifers in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu (India)

Applied Water Science

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 1011-1023

  Thivya, C ^a   Chidambaram, S ^a   Rao, M S ^b   Thilagavathi, R ^a   Prasanna, M V ^c   Manikandan, S ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (India)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Fluoride; Groundwater; Lithology; Weathering

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DISSOLUTION; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; FLUORSPAR; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; IONS; POTABLE WATER; ROCKS; WEATHERING;

FLUORIDE; FLUORIDE ION; HARD ROCKS; HARD-ROCK AQUIFERS; MAJOR ANIONS; MAJOR CATIONS; ROCK TYPES; STANDARD PROCEDURES; STUDY AREAS; TAMIL NADU;

LITHOLOGY;

AQUIFER; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLUORIDE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HARD ROCK; LITHOLOGY; WEATHERING;

INDIA; MADURAI; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 85042262986     PISSN: 21905487     EISSN: 21905495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13201-015-0312-0     Document Type: Article

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