Use of a high-resolution pore-water gel profiler to measure groundwater fluxes at an underwater saline seepage site in Lake Kinneret, Israel

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1802-1809

  Mortimer, R J G ^a   Krom, M D ^a   Boyle, D R ^b   Nishri, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; POREWATER; PROBE; SEEPAGE;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; POREWATER; SEEPAGE;

ISRAEL; LAKE KINNERET;

EID: 0032722446     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.7.1802     Document Type: Article

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