Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/dwes-6-69-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/dwes-6-69-2013
04 Jul 2013
 | 04 Jul 2013

Status of organochlorine pesticides in Ganga river basin: anthropogenic or glacial?

P. K. Mutiyar and A. K. Mittal

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