A 3H/3He study of ground water flow in a fractured bedrock aquifer

Ground Water

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 661-670

  Aeschbach Hertig, W ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; DETERMINATION OF CONTENT; FRACTIONATION; GROUND WATER; HELIUM; IDENTIFICATION; MEASUREMENT; NEON; PRECIPITATION; TRITIUM; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; HELIUM; HYDROGEN; NEON; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TRITIUM; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER WELLS;

FRACTURE BEDROCK AQUIFER;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

AQUIFER; FRACTURED MEDIUM; GROUNDWATER FLOW; WATER CHEMISTRY;

NEW YORK; UNITED STATES;

TRITIUM;

EID: 0032128303     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1998.tb02841.x     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Benson, B.B., and D. Krause. 1980. Isotopic fractionation of helium during solution: A probe for the liquid state. J. Solution. Ghent 9, no. 12: 895-909.
2. 14C incubation method and the mixed layer carbon budget. DeepSea Res. 40, no. 1/2:151-169.
3. 3He. Int. J. Appl. Radiat, hot. 27, 515-522.
4. Cook, P.O., D.K. Solomon, W.E. Sanford, E. Busenberg, L.N. Plummer, and R.J. Poreda. 1996. Inferring shallow groundwater flow in saprolite and fractured rock using environmental tracers. Water Resour. Res. 32, no. 6: 1501-1509.
5. Dunkle, S.A., L.N. Plummer, E. Busenberg, P.J. Phillips, J.M. Denver, P.A. Hamilton, R.L. Michel, and T.B. Coplen. 1993. Chlorofluorocarbons (CC13F and CC12F2) as dating tools and hydrologic tracers in shallow i groundwater of the Delmarva Peninsula, Atlantic Coastal Plain, United States. Water Resour. Res. 29, no. 12: 3837-3860.
6. Ekwurzel, B., P. Schlosser, W.M. Smethie, L.N. Plummer, E. Busenberg, R.L. Michel, R. Weppernig, and M. Stute. 1994. Dating of shallow groundwater: Comparison of the transient tracers 3H/3He, chlorofluorocarbons, and 85Kr. Water Resour. Res. 30, no. 6: 1693-1708.
7. Erikson, E. 1958. The possible use of tritium for estimating groundwater storage. Tellus 10, no. 4: 472-478.
8. Houghton, H.F. 1990. Hydrogeology of the early mesozoic rocks of the Newark Basin, New Jersey. In Aspects of groundwater in New Jersey: 7th annual meeting of the Geological Association of New Jersey. i Union, New Jersey: Geological Association of New Jersey.
9. IAEA. 1992. Statistical treatment of data on environmental isotopes in precipitation. Technical Reports Series 331. Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency.
10. Jenkins, W.J., and W.B. Clarke. 1976. The distribution of 3He in the western Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Res. 23, 481-494.
11. Kaufman, S., and W.F. Libby. 1954. The natural distribution of tritium. Phys. Rev. 93, no. 6: 1337-1344.
12. Mamyrin, B.A., and I.N. Tolstikhin. 1984. Helium isotopes in nature. In Developments in Geochemistry, ed. W.S. Fyfe. New York: Elsevier.
13. Michalski, A. 1990. Hydrogeology of the Brunswick (Passaic) Formation and implications for ground water monitoring practices. Ground Water Monitoring Review 10, no. 4: 134-143.
14. Olsen, P.E. 1980. Triassic and Jurassic formations of the Newark Basin. In Field studies of New Jersey geology and guide to field trips: 52nd annual meeting of the New York State Geological Association, ed. W. Manspeizer, 2-41. Newark, New Jersey: Rutgers University.
15. Perlmutter, N.M. 1959. Geology and ground-water resources of Rockland county, New York, with special emphasis on the Newark group (Triassic). N.Y. Water Power and Control Comm. Bull. GW-42. Albany, New York: N.Y. Water Power and Control Comm.
16. Poreda, R.J., T.E. Cerling, and O.K. Solomon. 1988. Tritium and helium isotopes as hydrologie tracers in a shallow unconfined aquifer. J. Hydrol. 103, no. 1: 1-9.
17. Redmond, R., R. Starcher, and A. Sigerson. 1993. Groundwater flow and contaminant migration in the Brunswick Group (Newark Basin). In Ground Water Management, Proceedings of the Focus Conference on Eastern Regional Ground Water Issues, 3-16. Dublin, Ohio: Water Well Journal Publishing Co.
18. Schlosser, P., M. Stute, C. Dörr, C. Sonntag, and K.O. Miinnich. 1988. TritiumPHe-dating of shallow groundwater. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett 89, 353-362.
19. Schlosser, P., M. Stute, C. Sonntag, and K.O. Münnich. 1989. Tritiogenic 3He in shallow groundwater. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 94, 245-256.
20. Solomon, O.K., R.J. Poreda, S.L. Schiff, and J.A. Cherry. 1992. Tritium and helium 3 as groundwater age tracers in the Borden aquifer. Water Resour. Res. 28, no. 3: 741-755.
21. Solomon, O.K., S.L. Schiff, R.J. Poreda, and W.B. Clarke. 1993. A validation of the 3H/3He-method for determining groundwater recharge. Water Resour. Res. 29, no. 9: 2951-2962.
22. Solomon, O.K., R.J. Poreda, P.O. Cook, and A. Hunt. 1995. Site characterization using 3HPHe ground-water ages, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Ground Water 33, no. 6: 988-996.
23. Stute, M., and P. Schlosser. 1993. Principles and applications of the noble gas paleothermometer. In Climate Change in Continental Isotopic Records, Geophysical Monograph 78, ed. P.K. Swart, K.C. Lohmann, J. McKenzie, and S. Savin, 89-100. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union.
24. Stute, M., C. Sonntag, J. Déak, and P. Schlosser. 1992. Helium in deep circulating groundwater in the Great Hungarian Plain: Flow dynamics and crustal and mantle helium fluxes. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 56, 2051-2067.
25. Stute, M., M. Forster, H. Frischkorn, A. Serejo, F.F. Clark, P. Schlosser, W.S. Broecker, and G. Bonani. 1995. Cooling of tropical Brazil (5C) during the last glacial maximum. Science 269, 379-383.
26. Stute, M., J. Deâk, K. Révész, J.K. Böhlke, E. Deseö, R. Weppemig, and P. Schlosser. 1997. TritiumPHe dating of river infiltration: An example from the Danube in thé Szigetkös area, Hungary. Ground Water 35, no. 5: 905-911.
27. Szabo, Z., D.E. Rice, L.N. Plummer, E. Busenberg, S. Drenkard, and P. Schlosser. 1996. Age dating of shallow groundwater with chlorofluorocarbons, tritium/helium 3, and flow path analysis, southern New Jersey coastal plain. Water Resour. Res. 32, no. 4: 1023-1038.
28. Takaoka, N., and Y. Mizutani. 1987. Tritiogenic 3He in groundwater in Takaoka. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 85,74-78.
29. Tolstikhin, I.N., and I.L. Kamenskiy. 1969. Determination of ground-water ages by the T-'He method. Geochemistry International 6, 810-811.
30. Torgersen, T., W.B. Clarke, and W.J. Jenkins. 1979. The tritium/helium3 method in hydrology. In Isotope Hydrology, Proceedings of an International Symposium on Isotope Hydrology, 917-930. Vienna: IAEA.
31. Torgersen, T., S. Drenkard, K. Parley, P. Schlosser, and A. Shapiro. 1994. Mantle helium in the groundwater of the Mirror Lake Basin, New Hampshire. U.S.A. In Noble Gas Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, ed. J. Matsuda, 279-292. Tokyo: Terra Scientific Publishing Co.
32. Unterweger, M.P., B.M. Coursey, F.J. Schima, and W.B. Mann. 1980. Preparation and calibration of the 1978 National Bureau of Standards tritiated-water standards. Int. J. Appl. Radiat, hot. 31, 611-614.
33. Weise, S.M. 1986. Heliumisotopen-Gehalte im Grundwasser, Messung und Interpretation. Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. München, Munich, Germany.
34. Williams, J.H., and R.W. Conger. 1990. Preliminary delineation of contaminated water-bearing fractures intersected by open-hole bedrock wells. Ground Water Monitoring Review 10, no. 4: 118-126.