The importance of submarine groundwater discharge to the nearshore nutrient supply in the Gulf of Aqaba (Israel)

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1876-1886

  Shellenbarger, Gregory G ^a,c   Monismith, Stephen G ^a   Genin, Amatzia ^b   Paytan, Adina ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; COASTAL WATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LEACHING; NUTRIENT CYCLING; RADIUM ISOTOPE; SALINITY; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 33746902760     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.4.1876     Document Type: Article

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