Assessment of groundwater-surface water interaction using long-term hydrochemical data and isotope hydrology: Headwaters of the Condamine River, Southeast Queensland, Australia

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 536, Issue , 2015, Pages 499-516

  Martinez, Jorge L ^a   Raiber, Matthias ^b   Cox, Malcolm E ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Catchment headwater; Condamine River; Groundwater surface water interaction; Hydrochemistry; Multivariate statistic; Radon222

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CATCHMENTS; EVAPORATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; ISOTOPES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RADON; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATERS; WATER LEVELS; WATER RESOURCES;

GROUND WATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATERS; HEAD WATERS; HYDROCHEMICAL PROCESS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; RADON-222;

RIVERS;

GROUND WATER; RADON 222; RAIN; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER;

BASEFLOW; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HEADWATER; HYDROCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EVAPORATION; GROUNDWATER SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDROLOGY; ISOTOPE HYDROLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SALINITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALIA; CONDAMINE RIVER; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84938068000     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.031     Document Type: Article

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