Modeling radium distribution in coastal aquifers during sea level changes: The Dead Sea case

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 88, Issue , 2012, Pages 237-254

  Kiro, Yael ^a,b   Yechieli, Yoseph ^b   Voss, Clifford I ^c   Starinsky, Abraham ^a   Weinstein, Yishai ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; COASTAL AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER; MODELING; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; RADIUM ISOTOPE; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 84861682573     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2012.03.022     Document Type: Article

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