Processes Controlling Recharge Beneath Ephemeral Streams in Southern Arizona

Groundwater Recharge in a Desert Environment: The Southwestern United States

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 69-76

  Blasch, Kyle ^a   Ferré, Ty P A ^a   Hoffmann, John ^b   Pool, Donald ^b   Bailey, Matthew ^b   Cordova, Jeffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater flow Southwestern States

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886333027     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/009WSA05     Document Type: Chapter

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