Evaluation of factors influencing the groundwater chemistry in a small tropical island of Malaysia.

• Main Authors: Kura, Nura Umar, Ramli, Mohammad Firuz, Sulaiman, Wan Nor Azmin, Ibrahim, Shaharin, Aris, Ahmad Zaharin, Mustapha, Adamu
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: MDPI 2013
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28934/1/Evaluation%20of%20factors%20influencing%20the%20groundwater%20chemistry%20in%20a%20small%20tropical%20island%20of%20Malaysia.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28934/; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Groundwater chemistry of small tropical islands is influenced by many factors, such as recharge, weathering and seawater intrusion, among others, which interact with each other in a very complex way. In this work, multivariate statistical analysis was used to evaluate the factors controlling the gro...