Use of 3H/3He ages to evaluate and improve groundwater flow models in a complex buried-valley aquifer

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1077-1089

  Sheets, Rodney A ^a   Bair, E Scott ^a,b   Rowe, Gary L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER AGE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; PARTICLE TRACKING; TRITIUM/HELIUM DATING;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LANDFORMS; TRAVEL TIME;

CALIBRATED MODEL; DATING TECHNIQUES; FINITE DIFFERENCE MODEL; GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; PARAMETER MODIFICATION; PARTICLE TRACKING; WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

EID: 0031981502     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR00007     Document Type: Article

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