Origin of groundwater salinity and hydrogeochemical processes in a confined coastal aquifer: Case of the Rhône delta (Southern France)

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2337-2349

  de Montety, Veronique ^a   Radakovitch, Olivier ^b   Vallet Coulomb, Christine ^b   Blavoux, Bernard ^a   Hermitte, Daniel ^b   Valles, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; NEON;

COASTAL AQUIFERS; HYDROGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

COASTAL AQUIFER; CONFINED AQUIFER; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER; SALINE INTRUSION; SALINITY; SUPERSATURATION;

EID: 48049094150     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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