Storage and transport in cave seepage- and groundwater in a South German karst system

Storage and transport in cave seepageand groundwater in a South German karst system K. Schwarz, J. A. C. Barth, P. Grathwohl, and C. Postigo-Rebello Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Center for Applied Geoscience, Sigwartstr. 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Geologie der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schloßgarten 5, 91054 Erlangen, Germany Consejo Superiour de Invstigationes Cientificas, Jordi Girona 18–26, 8034 Barcelona, Spain Received: 17 April 2008 – Accepted: 6 May 2008 – Published: 4 June 2008 Correspondence to: J. A. C. Barth (johannes.barth@uni-tuebingen.de) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.

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