Solute generation and transfer from a chemically reactive alpine glacial-proglacial system

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1189-1211

  Fairchild, Ian J ^a   Killawee, Jacque A ^a   Sharp, Martin J ^b   Spiro, Baruch ^c   Hubbard, Bryn ^d   Lorrain, Regi D ^e   Tison, Jean Louis ^e  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Glacial environment; Hydrochemistry; Switzerland; Weathering

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATER CHEMISTRY; WEATHERING;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0033390382     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199912)24:13<1189::AID-ESP31>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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