Towards understanding the Dumfries Basin aquifer, SW Scotland

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 263, Issue , 2006, Pages 187-198

  Akhurst, M C ^a   Ball, D F ^a   Brady, L ^b   Buckley, D K ^a   Burns, J ^c   Darling, W G ^a   Macdonald, A M ^a   McMillan, A A ^a   O'Dochartaigh B E ^a   Peach, D W ^a   Robins, N S ^a   Wealthall, G P ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH WATER   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; TRIBUTARY;

DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY; EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750378417     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.263.01.10     Document Type: Article

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