Hydrochemical properties of transition zone between fresh groundwater and seawater in karst environment of the Adriatic islands, Croatia

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1629-1642

  Terzić, Josip ^a   Peh, Zoran ^a   Marković, Tamara ^a  

^a CROATIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Fresh salt water relations; Hydrochemistry; Islands; Karst; Multivariate analyses

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEAWATER; WATER SUPPLY;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER RESERVES; ISLANDS; KARST; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES; NITROGEN TRANSFORMATIONS; WATER RELATIONS;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER-SEAWATER INTERACTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; KARST; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

ADRIATIC SEA; CROATIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77955156295     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0146-x     Document Type: Article

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