Constraining groundwater discharge in a large watershed: Integrated isotopic, hydraulic, and thermal data from the Canadian shield

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Gleeson, Tom ^a   Novakowski, Kent ^a   Cook, Peter G ^b   Kyser, T Kurt ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOWS; COARSE-GRAINED SEDIMENTS; ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY; FRACTURED ROCK; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; HIGH-DENSITY; HYDROGRAPH SEPARATION; POROUS MEDIA; RECHARGE RATES; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE; STANDARD METHOD; STEADY STATE; STREAMFLOW MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE WATER BODY; THERMAL DATA; THERMAL TRACERS; THIN VENEER; WATERSHED BUDGET;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ECOSYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; POROUS MATERIALS; RADON; RIVERS; WATERSHEDS;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

BRITTLE FRACTURE; DISCHARGE; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; FLOW PATTERN; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; RECHARGE; STEADY FLOW; SURFACE WATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARM WATER; WATER BUDGET; WATERSHED;

CANADIAN SHIELD; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; SCOTLAND; TAY RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349764503     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007622     Document Type: Article

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