Use of hydrochemistry and environmental isotopes for assessment of groundwater resources in the intermediate aquifer of the Sfax basin (Southern Tunisia)

Carbonates and Evaporites

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 177-192

  Hchaichi, Zohra ^a   Abid, Kamel ^a   Zouari, Kamel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Cation exchange; Dissolution; Evaporation; Hydrogeochemical; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISSOLUTION; EVAPORATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; ION EXCHANGE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SALINITY; SALINIZATION; SATURATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACER;

SFAX BASIN; TUNISIA;

EID: 84903879436     PISSN: 08912556     EISSN: 18785212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13146-013-0165-2     Document Type: Article

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