Dating young groundwater with sulfur hexafluoride: Natural and anthropogenic sources of sulfur hexafluoride

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 3011-3030

  Busenberg, E ^a   Plummer, L N ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; GROUNDWATER; TRACER;

ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN; BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 0033815935     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000WR900151     Document Type: Article

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