Reassessing the management of groundwater use from sandy aquifers: Acidification and base cation depletion exacerbated by drought and groundwater withdrawal on the Gnangara Mound, Western Australia

Hydrogeology Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 579-588

  Appleyard, Steve ^a   Cook, T ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^b RPS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acidification; Australia; Base cation depletion; Hydrochemistry; Over abstraction

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; AQUIFER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GROUNDWATER; HYDROCHEMISTRY; WATER BUDGET; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY; WATER TABLE; WATER USE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; GNANGARA MOUND; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 65649138447     PISSN: 14312174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10040-008-0410-2     Document Type: Article

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