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Risk assessment and source identification of coastal groundwater nitrate in northern China using dual nitrate isotopes combined with Bayesian mixing model

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Pages 1043-1057 | Received 22 Sep 2017, Accepted 13 Nov 2017, Published online: 21 Dec 2017

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