Use of chloride mass balance and tritium data for estimation of groundwater recharge and renewal rate in an unconfined aquifer from North Africa: A case study from Tunisia

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 861-871

  Dassi, Lassaad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GABES   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Central Tunisia; Chloride mass balance; Groundwater recharge; Northern Africa; Renewal rate; Tritium; Unconfined aquifer

Indexed keywords

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; CHLORIDE MASS BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISOTOPE TECHNIQUE; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; GROUNDWATER EXPLOITATION; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; NORTH AFRICA; NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES; SECOND GROUP; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; TOTAL RAINFALL; TUNISIA; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS;

AQUIFERS; ARID REGIONS; CEMENTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; ISOTOPES; RAIN; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); RIVERS; SURFACE WATER RESOURCES; TRITIUM; WELLS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

ARID REGION; CHLORIDE; GROUNDWATER EXPLORATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MASS BALANCE; RAINWATER; RECHARGE; SEMIARID REGION; TRITIUM; UNCONFINED AQUIFER;

TUNISIA;

EID: 77954078009     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0223-1     Document Type: Article

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