Delineating and Quantifying Ground Water Discharge Zones Using Streambed Temperatures

Ground Water

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 243-257

  Conant Jr , Brewster ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); GEOLOGY; HYDRAULICS; MAPPING; SAND; SURFACE WATERS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

INTERSTITIAL WATER; MINIPIEZOMETERS;

GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY;

SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER;

DISCHARGE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; PIEZOMETER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM BED; TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGY; RIVER; SEASON; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; SEASONS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 1542290922     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2004.tb02671.x     Document Type: Article

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