A comparison of groundwater dating with 81Kr, 36Cl and 4He in four wells of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 211, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 237-250

  Lehmann, B E ^a   Love, A ^b   Purtschert, R ^a   Collon, P ^c   Loosli, H H ^a   Kutschera, W ^c   Beyerle, U ^a,d   Aeschbach Hertig, W ^d   Kipfer, R ^d,e   Frape, S K ^f   Herczeg, A ^g   Moran, J ^h   Tolstikhin, I N ⁱ   Groning M ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Land and Biodiversity Conservation ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

^h LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^j INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

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Author keywords

Chlorine 36; Geochemistry; Great Artesian Basin, Australia; Groundwater dating; Helium 4; Isotope hydrology; Krypton 81

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HELIUM; KRYPTON; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; RADIONUCLIDE;

AUSTRALIA; GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN;

EID: 0038686381     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00206-1     Document Type: Article

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