Tracing Recharge from Sinking Streams over Spatial Dimensions of Kilometers in a Karst Aquifer

Ground Water

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 898-904

  Greene, Earl A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); SAMPLING; SPRINGS (WATER); STREAM FLOW; WATER WELLS;

WELL HEAD PROTECTION;

AQUIFERS;

EID: 0031234971     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1997.tb00159.x     Document Type: Article

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