Groundwater compartmentalisation: A water table height and geochemical analysis of the structural controls on the subdivision of a major aquifer, the Sherwood Sandstone, Merseyside, UK

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 49-64

  Mohamed, Essam A ^a   Worden, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; WATER TABLE;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; MERSEYSIDE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33644531295     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-10-49-2006     Document Type: Article

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