Monitoring well responses to karst conduit head fluctuations: Implications for fluid exchange and matrix transmissivity in the Floridan aquifer

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 404, Issue , 2006, Pages 209-217

  Martin, Jennifer M ^a   Screaton, Elizabeth J ^a   Martin, Jonathan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquifer; Floridan; Karst; Transmissivity

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ELECTRIC CONDUITS; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY;

FLORIDAN; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; KARST; KARST DEVELOPMENT; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MONITORING WELLS; PASSIVE MONITORING; TRANSMISSIVITY;

WELLS;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER; KARST; MONITORING; RIVER; RIVER DISCHARGE; TRANSMISSIVITY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDAN AQUIFER; SANTA FE RIVER [FLORIDA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73949090077     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2404(17)     Document Type: Article

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