Offshore fresh groundwater reserves as a global phenomenon

Nature

Volumn 504, Issue 7478, 2013, Pages 71-78

  Post, Vincent E A ^a,b   Groen, Jacobus ^c,d   Kooi, Henk ^c   Person, Mark ^e   Ge, Shemin ^f   Edmunds, W Mike ^g  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR GROUNDWATER RESEARCH AND TRAINING   (Australia)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Acacia Water   (Netherlands)

^e NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; GROUND WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VAST METEORIC GROUNDWATER RESERVE;

BRACKISH WATER; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VOLUME;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; GLOBAL CHANGE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER CYCLE; WATER FLOW; WATER TABLE;

GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; OCEANS AND SEAS; SALINITY;

EID: 84889572075     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12858     Document Type: Review

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