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Geology of Bangladesh
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Mechanism of arsenic release to groundwater, Bangladesh and West Bengal
TL;DR: In some areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, concentrations of As in groundwater exceed guide concentrations, set internationally and nationally at 10 to 50 m gl ˇ1 and may reach levels in the mg l ˆ 1 range.
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Arsenic mobility and groundwater extraction in Bangladesh.
Charles F. Harvey,Christopher H. Swartz,A. B. M. Badruzzaman,Nicole Keon-Blute,Winston Yu,M. Ashraf Ali,Jenny Jay,Roger Beckie,Volker Niedan,Daniel J. Brabander,Peter M. Oates,Khandaker N. Ashfaque,Shafiqul Islam,Harold F. Hemond,M. Feroze Ahmed +14 more
TL;DR: The results of field injection of molasses, nitrate, and low-arsenic water show that organic carbon or its degradation products may quickly mobilize arsenic, oxidants may lower arsenic concentrations, and sorption of arsenic is limited by saturation of aquifer materials.
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The significance of large sediment supply, active tectonism, and eustasy on margin sequence development: Late Quaternary stratigraphy and evolution of the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta
TL;DR: Borehole data from the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta system reveal an intriguing Late Quaternary history controlled by immense sediment discharge, tectonics, and eustasy.
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An overview of the sedimentary geology of the Bengal Basin in relation to the regional tectonic framework and basin-fill history
TL;DR: The basin-fill history of these geo-tectonic provinces varied considerably as mentioned in this paper due to the location of the basin at the juncture of three interacting plates, viz., the Indian, Burma and Tibetan (Eurasian) Plates.
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Arsenic in groundwater of the Bengal Basin, Bangladesh: Distribution, field relations, and hydrogeological setting
TL;DR: Arsenic contaminates groundwater across much of southern, central and eastern Bangladesh as discussed by the authors, and approximately 25% of wells in Bangladesh exceed the national standard of 50 �g/l, affecting at least 25 million people.