The extent of seawater circulation in the aquifer and its role in elemental mass balances: A lesson from the Dead Sea

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 394, Issue , 2014, Pages 146-158

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

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea; Radium; Seawater circulation in aquifers

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEOLOGY; RADIUM; SEAWATER; TRACE ELEMENTS;

COASTAL AQUIFERS; DEAD SEA; FRESH WATER INFLOWS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TRANSITION ZONES; WATER CIRCULATION; WATER ROCK INTERACTIONS;

AQUIFERS;

CIRCULATION; COASTAL AQUIFER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MASS BALANCE; RADIUM ISOTOPE; SEAWATER; TRACE ELEMENT; TRANSITION ZONE; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 84897388058     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

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