The use of stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen to identify water sources in two hypersaline estuaries with different hydrologic regimes

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 952-966

  Price, Reń M ^a   Skrzypek, Grzegorz ^b   Grierson, Pauline F ^b   Swart, Peter K ^c   Fourqurean, James W ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

groundwater; precipitation; Shark Bay; surface water

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EVAPORATION; FRESHWATER INPUT; GROUNDWATER; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MASS BALANCE; OVERLAND FLOW; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RUNOFF; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER; WATER BUDGET;

AUSTRALIA; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA BAY; SHARK BAY; UNITED STATES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CHONDRICHTHYES;

EID: 84870358274     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF12042     Document Type: Article

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