Assessment of groundwater quality and groundwater vulnerability in the northern Ordos Cretaceous Basin, China

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2018, Pages

  An, Yongkai ^a   Lu, Wenxi ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Groundwater vulnerability; Modified DRASTIC; Ordos Cretaceous Basin; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; GROUNDWATER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; VULNERABILITY; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; ORDOS;

EID: 85044026650     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-018-3449-y     Document Type: Article

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