Use of Total Organic Carbon (TOC) as tracer of diffuse infiltration in a dolomitic karstic system: The Nerja Cave (Andalusia, southern Spain)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Batiot, Christelle ^a   Linán, Cristina ^b   Andreo, Bartolomé ^c   Emblanch, Christophe ^d   Carrasco, Francisco ^c   Blavoux, Bernard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b Nerja Cave Foundation   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CARBON; CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILTRATION; LITHOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); CAVES; FLUID DYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER;

KARSTIC FLOW; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON (TOC); DIFFUSE FLOW; DOLOMITIC AQUIFERS; KARSTIC AQUIFER; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; SATURATED ZONE; SOUTHERN SPAIN; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; UNSATURATED ZONE;

GEOPHYSICS; ORGANIC CARBON;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; KARST; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

EID: 0942289038     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018546     Document Type: Article

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