Stream/aquifer interactions at Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado: Influences on interdunal wetland disappearance

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 271, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 77-100

  Wurster, Frederic C ^a   Cooper, David J ^a   Sanford, William E ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel incision; Ground water surface water interactions; Isotope hydrology; San Luis Valley; Wetland hydrology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DROUGHT; GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPES; SAND; SEED; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; WETLANDS;

SOIL STRATIGRAPHY;

HYDROLOGY;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; HABITAT LOSS; UNCONFINED AQUIFER; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037428952     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(02)00317-7     Document Type: Article

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