Catastrophic and dangerous inflows to salt mines in Poland as related to the origin of water determined by isotope methods

Environmental Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 299-311

  Zuber, A ^a   Grabczak, J ^b   Garlicki, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Environmental isotopes; Mine catastrophes; Mine inflows; Mining errors; Miocene salt deposits; Salt mines; Water origin; Zechstein diapirs

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METEORIC WATER; MINING; PROVENANCE; SALT;

POLAND;

TRITIUM;

EID: 0033975120     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002540050009     Document Type: Article

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