Abstract:<p>Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a possible source for nutrients and anthropogenic pollutants that flow from the land to the ocean. The coastal zone of southwest (SW) India is capped with Tertiary sandstone-limestone-clay intercalations, Quaternary sediments, and laterites up to 600 m thickness above bedrock, which are considered as productive aquifer belts. The signatures of freshwater discharge to sea are not entirely vivid on the SW coast of India due to different constraints on inv… Show more
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