Carbon dioxide respiration in the deep vadose zone: Implications for groundwater age dating

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3069-3077

  Bacon, Diana Holford ^a,b   Keller, C Kent ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GROUNDWATER; RADIOCARBON DATING; VADOSE ZONE;

CALCITE; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER;

CALCITE DISSOLUTION; CLOSED SYSTEMS; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GROUNDWATER AGE DATING; GROUNDWATER AGES; SYSTEM MODELING; WATER TABLES;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 0031786349     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR02045     Document Type: Article

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