<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Milovanovic, M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tomara, V.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Poulos, S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alexopoulos, J.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Geomorphologic and hydrologic environment of Korissia lagoon (Corfu island)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8th Congress of Hellenic Geographical Society,</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Athens </style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">261-269</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Korissia lagoon located in the southwest end of Corfu separated from the open Ionian Sea by a narrow (&amp;lt;250 m) stip of land. It has a surface of 4,2 km2 and depths &amp;lt;2m, communicating with the sea via an artificial-dredged channel. The bed of the lagoon consists of fine-grainned sediment (sandy silt – silty sand). Its drainage basin covers an area of 16 km2 and is characterized by low relief. It receives the freshwater inputs form a low relief (maximum elevation 319 m) of the drainage basin. The influx of fresh water is surficial includes also an underground flow, as indicated by the presence of a phreatic aquifer and a large number of wells at its nearby surrounding area. The water budget of the lagoon is characterised by a wet (October-March) and a dry (April-September) period. During the wet period the incoming volume of fresh water (5,3x106 m3 ) is much larger than its total volume (2,5 x 106 m3 ); this implies an outflow of lagoonal waters whilst lagoonal waters are characterised by relatively lower salinity values (&amp;lt;20 ppt) compare to those of the Ionian Sea (38 ppt). In contrast, during the dry period, the fresh water influx (1,2 x106 m3 ) is smaller than the volume of the lagoon; this induces an influx of sea water, which in association with the high levels of evaporation moduled hyper-saline (&amp;gt;50 ppt) hydrologic conditions within the lagoonal basin.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>