Palaeotemperature reconstruction from noble gases in ground water taking into account equilibration with entrapped air

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6790, 2000, Pages 1040-1044

  Aeschbach Hertig, W ^a,b   Peeters, F ^a   Beyerle, U ^a   Kipfer, R ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; INERT GAS;

AQUIFER; COOLING; GROUNDWATER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NOBLE GAS; PALEOTEMPERATURE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0034729706     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016542     Document Type: Article

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