Soils characteristics of the bassendean and spearwood sands of the Gnangara Mound (Western Australia) and their controls on recharge, water level patterns and solutes of the Superficial aquifer

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 3-26

  Salama, Ramsis B ^a   Silberstein, Richard ^a   Pollock, Daniel ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flow pathways; Recharge; Soil properties; Water level patterns

Indexed keywords

PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RECHARGE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER; WETTABILITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

EID: 24044542312     PISSN: 15677230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11267-005-7396-8     Document Type: Article

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