Mechanism of arsenic release to groundwater, Bangladesh and West Bengal

Applied Geochemistry - Tập 15 Số 4 - Trang 403-413 - 2000
Ross T. Nickson1, J.M. McArthur1, Peter Ravenscroft2, W. G. Burgess1, Kazi Matin Ahmed3
1Geological Sciences, University College London, Gower St., London, WC1E 6BT, UK
2Mott MacDonald International Ltd., 122 Gulshan Avenue, Dhaka -1212, Bangladesh
3Department of Geology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

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