Flushing of dense, hypoxic water from a cavity of the Swan River estuary, Western Australia

Estuaries

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 908-915

  Kurup, Rajendra G ^a   Hamilton, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; FLUSHING; FRESHWATER INPUT; HYPOXIA;

AUSTRALIA; SWAN ESTUARY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CYGNUS;

EID: 0036773247     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02691339     Document Type: Article

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