Tritium/3He Dating of River Infiltration: An Example from the Danube in the Szigetköz Area, Hungary

Ground Water

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 905-911

  Stute, M ^a,d,e   Deak J ^b   Revesz K ^c   Bohlke J K ^c   Deseo E ^b   Weppernig, R ^a   Schlosser, P ^a,d  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b Research Center for Water Resources Development Budapest   (Hungary)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^e USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; HYDROGEN; INFILTRATION; MIXING; NEON; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); RIVERS; TRITIUM;

RIVER INFILTRATION;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

EID: 0031233836     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1997.tb00160.x     Document Type: Article

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