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Record Nr.

UNINA9910703541103321

Autore

Kingsbury James A.

Titolo

Water quality in the Mississippi Embayment : Texas coastal uplands aquifer system and Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer, south-central United States, 1994-2008 / / by James A. Kingsbury [and five others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Virginia : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 72 pages) : color illustrations, color maps

Collana

Circular ; ; 1356

Soggetti

Water quality - Mississippi Embayment

Water quality - Mississippi River Valley

Groundwater - Quality - Mississippi Embayment

Groundwater - Quality - Mississippi River Valley

Groundwater - Quality

Water quality

Mississippi River Valley

United States Mississippi Embayment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Apr. 28, 2015).

"National Water-Quality Assessment Program."

Appendix 3 requires Microsoft Excel to view.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-59).

Nota di contenuto

Overview of major findings and implications -- NAWQA approach to assessing groundwater quality -- Environmental and hydrogeologic setting -- Natural processes and human activities that affect groundwater quality -- Quality of the groundwater resource used for drinking water -- Understanding where and why key contaminants occur in shallow groundwater -- Understanding where and why key contaminants occur in deep groundwater used for public and domestic supply.