Travel time based approach for the assessment of vulnerability of karst groundwater: The Transit Time Method

Environmental Geology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 905-911

  Brosig, Karolin ^a   Geyer, Tobias ^a   Subah, Ali ^b   Sauter, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Ministry of Water and Irrigation   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Groundwater vulnerability; Karst; Transit Time Method

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CONTAMINATION; FLOW PATTERNS; LIMESTONE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY; KARST; PHYSICS-BASED LATERAL FLOW; TRANSIT TIME METHOD;

AQUIFERS;

CATCHMENT; FLOW PATTERN; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; KARST HYDROLOGY; LIMESTONE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINKHOLE; TRAVEL TIME; VULNERABILITY;

AMMAN; ASIA; EURASIA; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST; QUNAYYAH SPRING;

EID: 42449091122     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0898-0     Document Type: Article

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