The source and age of groundwater brines in the Dead Sea area, as deduced from 36Cl and 14C

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1909-1916

  Yechieli, Yoseph ^a   Ronen, Daniel ^b   Kaufman, Aaron ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRINE; CARBON-14; CHLORINE-36; EVAPORATION; GROUNDWATER; HALITE;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 0030471547     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(96)00065-8     Document Type: Article

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