Patterns of groundwater discharge into Florida Bay

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1045-1055

  Corbett, D Reide ^a   Chanton, Jeffrey ^a   Burnett, William ^a   Dillon, Kevin ^a   Rutkowski, Christine ^a   Fourqurean, James W ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER FLOW; SEEPAGE; TRACE GAS;

FLORIDA; FLORIDA BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033019628     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.4.1045     Document Type: Article

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