Controls on ground water chemistry in the central Couloir sud rifain, Morocco

Ground Water

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 306-319

  Benaabidate, Lahcen ^a   Fryar, Alan E ^a  

^a SIDI MOHAMED BEN ABDELLAH UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE DISSOLUTION; CALCITE PRECIPITATION; CARBONATE AQUIFER; CATION EXCHANGES; CONFINED AQUIFERS; DOLOMITE DISSOLUTION; GRAPHICAL TECHNIQUE; HYDRAULIC HEADS; HYDROCHEMICAL EVOLUTION; MAJOR ION CHEMISTRY; REGIONAL AQUIFERS; RETURN FLOW; SATURATION INDEX; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SOUTHERN SPAIN; SPRING FLOW; SUSTAINABLE USE;

AQUIFERS; CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; DISSOLUTION; EVAPORATION; GEOTHERMAL SPRINGS; GYPSUM; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; ION EXCHANGE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VAPORS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AQUIFER; CALCITE; DEEP WATER; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GYPSUM; HALITE; HYDRAULIC HEAD; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; MOROCCO; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

MOROCCO; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

COULOIR SUD RIFAIN; FES; FES-BOULEMANE; MEKNES; MEKNES-TAFILALET; MOROCCO; SPAIN;

CENTROSTEGIA THURBERI;

EID: 77950275406     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2008.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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