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Mapping of fluoride ions in groundwater of Dindigul district, Tamilnadu, India—using GIS technique

رسم الخرائط من أيونات الفلوريد في المياه الجوفية في المنطقة دينديجول، تاميلنادو، الهند-باستخدام تقنيات نظم المعلومات الجغرافية

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The accurate information through water quality analysis, scientific study on F − distribution in groundwater and geochemical knowledge with spatial information on geology and climate are necessary to understand the source/cause, type and level of F − contamination. The Dindigul district is a hard-rock terrain and marked as one of the fluoride-rich area in Tamilnadu due to occurrence of various rock types including fluoride-bearing minerals. The F − content of groundwater can thus originate from the dissolution of fluoride-bearing minerals in the bed rock. Eighty-six representative groundwater samples from Dindigul district was collected during two different seasons. Samples were analysed for F −, other major cations and anions. The study area is chiefly composed of hornblende biotite gneiss and charnockite, apart from this untreated tannery effluents also let from many places in the study area. Geographical Information System technique was adopted to study the sources of F −, and it was found that F − in the study is mainly attributed to geogenic source.

معلومات دقيقة عن طريق تحليل نوعية المياه، دراسة علمية عن توزيع الفلوريد في المياه الجوفية والمعرفة الجيوكيميائية بالمعلومات المكانية في الجيولوجيا والمناخ الضروري لفهم المصدر/يسبب نوع ومستوى التلوث الفلوريد. مقاطعة دينديجول تضاريس الصخور الصلبة ووضع علامة على أنه واحداً من فلوريد الغنية المنطقة في تاميلنادو بسبب حدوث أنواع الصخور المختلفة بما في ذلك فلوريد واضعة المعادن. وهكذا يمكن أن تنشأ محتوى الفلوريد في المياه الجوفية من انحلال الفلوريد واضعة المعادن في الصخور السرير. تم جمع عينات المياه الجوفية تمثيلية 86 من مقاطعة دينديجول خلال موسمين مختلفة. تم تحليل عينات للفلوريد واللاسلكية الرئيسية الشوارد. وتتألف منطقة الدراسة أساسا من النيس بيوتيتي هورنبليندي وتشارنوكيتي، وبصرف النظر عن هذه النفايات السائلة مدبغة غير المعالجة واسمحوا أيضا من العديد من الأماكن في منطقة الدراسة. واعتمد تقنيات نظام المعلومات الجغرافية لدراسة مصادر الفلوريد ووجد أن الفلوريد في الدراسة يعزى أساسا إلى مصدر بشري.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India for funding the Research project through DST Fast track scheme.

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, Annamalai University, Tamilnadu, India

    Manivannan Ramachandran, Chidambaram Sabarathinam, Karmegam Ulaganthan, Anandhan Paluchamy & Manikandan Sivaji

  2. Centre for Water Resources Development and Management, Kozhikode, Kerala, India

    Shahul Hameed

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Ramachandran, M., Sabarathinam, C., Ulaganthan, K. et al. Mapping of fluoride ions in groundwater of Dindigul district, Tamilnadu, India—using GIS technique. Arab J Geosci 5, 433–439 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-010-0216-0

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