Groundwater age dating with chlorofluorocarbons

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2989-3001

  Oster, H ^a,b   Sonntag, C ^a   Munnich K O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Spurenstofflabor Oster ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROFLUOROCARBON; FACTOR A; GROUND WATER; TRACER; WATER;

AIR; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; LABORATORY; SOIL;

AGE DETERMINATION; CFC; GROUNDWATER CFC; GROUNDWATER DATING; GROUNDWATER QUALITY;

GERMANY, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, HEIDELBERG; GERMANY, SAARLAND, WACHENHEIM;

EID: 0029659873     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR01775     Document Type: Article

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