Soil and karst aquifer hydrological controls on the geochemical evolution of speleothem-forming drip waters, Crag Cave, southwest Ireland

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 273, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 51-68

  Tooth, Anna F ^a,b,c   Fairchild, Ian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Hydrology; Karst water; Palaeoclimate; Speleothems

Indexed keywords

NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; SOILS;

WATER DRIP RATES;

HYDROLOGY;

HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; KARST HYDROLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; SPELEOTHEM; WATER CHEMISTRY;

IRELAND;

EID: 0037466135     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(02)00349-9     Document Type: Article

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