Statistical and multivariate statistical techniques to trace the sources and affecting factors of groundwater pollution in a rapidly growing city on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2020, Pages 1603-1621

  Wu, Jianhua ^a   Li, Peiyue ^a   Wang, Dan ^a   Ren, Xiaofei ^a   Wei, Miaojun ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

groundwater contamination; groundwater quality; human activities; Loess Plateau; nitrate pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 85065840058     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2019.1594156     Document Type: Article

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