Fresh-saline ground water interface in the western Dead Sea area

Ground Water

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 615-623

  Yechieli, Yoseph ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SALINE WATER; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

SALINIZATION; SUTRA CODE SOFTWARE; WESTERN DEAD SEA AREA;

GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SALINE INTRUSION; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 0034237837     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2000.tb00253.x     Document Type: Article

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