Aquia aquifer dissolved Cl- and 36Cl/Cl: Implications for flow velocities

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1163-1171

  Purdy, Caroline Bascom ^a,c   Helz, George R ^a,d   Mignerey, Alice C ^a   Kubik, Peter W ^b,e,h   Elmore, David ^b,f   Sharma, Pankaj ^b,f   Hemmick, Thomas ^b,g  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; CHLORIDE; CHLORINE-36; FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER;

USA, MARYLAND, AQUIA AQUIFER;

AQUIFERS; CHLORINE IONS/CHLORINE 36; FLOW RATE; TRACERS;

EID: 0029667851     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR00356     Document Type: Article

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