Quantifying regional groundwater flow between Continental Intercalaire and Djeffara aquifers in southern Tunisia using isotope methods

Environmental Geology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 171-183

  Trabelsi, Rim ^a   Kacem, Abir ^a   Zouari, Kamel ^a   Rozanski, Kazimierz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chemical tracers; Continental Intercalaire; Djeffara aquifer; Isotope mass balance; Recharge; Tunisia; Vertical leakage

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL TRACERS; CONTINENTAL INTERCALAIRE; DJEFFARA AQUIFER; ISOTOPE MASS BALANCE; RECHARGE; TUNISIA; VERTICAL LEAKAGE;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MEATS; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MASS BALANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECHARGE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRACER;

AFRICA; CONTINENTAL INTERCALAIRE AQUIFER; DJEFFARA AQUIFER; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA;

EID: 67651096045     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-008-1503-x     Document Type: Article

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