Use of geochemical mass balance modelling to evaluate the role of weathering in determining stream chemistry in five mid-Atlantic watersheds on different lithologies

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 719-744

  O'Brien, Anne K ^a   Rice, Karen C ^a   Bricker, Owen P ^a   Kennedy, Margaret M ^a   Anderson, R Todd ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mass balance; Mid Atlantic watersheds; Mineral weathering; Solute concentrations

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; PETROGRAPHY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOILS; WEATHERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ELECTRON MICROPROBES; MASS BALANCE; MINERAL WEATHERING; SOFTWARE PACKAGE NETPATH;

WATERSHEDS;

HYDROCHEMISTRY; LITHOLOGY; MASS BALANCE; STREAM; STREAM CHEMISTRY; WEATHERING;

USA, (EAST);

EID: 0031160817     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199706)11:7<719::AID-HYP522>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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