Water–Rock Interaction and Lake Hydrochemistry in the Main Ethiopian Rift

World Geomorphological Landscapes

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 307-321

  Belete, Azeb ^a,b   Beccaluva, Luigi ^a   Bianchini, Gianluca ^a,c   Colombani, Nicolò ^d   Fazzini, Massimiliano ^a   Marchina, Chiara ^a   Natali, Claudio ^a,c   Rango, Tewodros ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethiopian lakes; Geochemistry; Hydro archive; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85022147785     PISSN: 22132090     EISSN: 22132104     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8026-1_18     Document Type: Chapter

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