Response of the groundwater system to changes in the Dead Sea level

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 401, Issue , 2006, Pages 113-126

  Yechieli, Yoseph ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead sea brine; Flushing; Fresh saline water interface; Groundwater levels; Hydrological modeling; Time domain electromagnetic (TDEM); Unsaturated zone

Indexed keywords

DROPS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; GROUNDWATER; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; WATER LEVELS;

DEAD SEA BRINE; FLUSHING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; TIME DOMAIN ELECTROMAGNETICS; UNSATURATED ZONE; WATER INTERFACE;

CHLORIDE MINERALS;

BRINE; EVAPORATION; FLUSHING; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SHORELINE; VADOSE ZONE; WATER LEVEL;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 73949086722     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2401(07)     Document Type: Article

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