Marine water from mid-Holocene sea level highstand trapped in a coastal aquifer: Evidence from groundwater isotopes, and environmental significance

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 544, Issue , 2016, Pages 995-1007

  Lee, Stephen ^a   Currell, Matthew ^a   Cendón, Dioni I ^b,c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coastal aquifer; Groundwater salinity; Holocene; Isotopes; Sea level; Trapped seawater

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; ISOTOPES; MIXING; SEA LEVEL; VEGETATION;

CHLORIDE/BROMIDE RATIO; COASTAL AQUIFERS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE; GROUNDWATER SALINITIES; HOLOCENES; VERTICAL SALINITY PROFILE;

SALINE WATER;

BROMIDE; CARBON 14; CHLORIDE; GROUND WATER; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN 18; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

COASTAL AQUIFER; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HALOPHYTE; HOLOCENE; MANGROVE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SWEATING; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALIA;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84954109864     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.014     Document Type: Article

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