Correlating specific conductivity with total hardness in gypsum karst waters

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 612-620

  Krawczyk, Wiesława Ewa ^a   Ford, Derek C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gypsum karst; Hydrochemistry; Specific electrical conductivity; Total hardness

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GYPSUM; IONS;

HYDROCHEMISTRY; SPECIFIC ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLID; TOTAL HARDNESS; WATER CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

WATER ANALYSIS;

CARBONATES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GYPSUM; IONS; WATER ANALYSIS;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GYPSUM; HARDNESS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; KARST; KARST HYDROLOGY;

EID: 34247241657     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1409     Document Type: Article

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