Radium and radon radioisotopes in regional groundwater, intertidal groundwater, and seawater in the Adelaide Coastal Waters Study area: Implications for the evaluation of submarine groundwater discharge

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 318-336

  Lamontagne, Sébastien ^a   Le Gal La Salle, Corinne ^b   Hancock, Gary J ^a   Webster, Ian T ^a   Simmons, Craig T ^b   Love, Andrew J ^c   James Smith, Julianne ^c   Smith, Anthony J ^a   Kämpf, Jochen ^b   Fallowfield, Howard J ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Department of Water Land and Biodiversity Conservation ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

222Rn; Gulf St Vincent; Radium quartet; Recirculated seawater; SGD

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COASTAL WATER; DISCHARGE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIONUCLIDE; RADIUM ISOTOPE; SEAWATER; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT;

ADELAIDE; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 43049147647     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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