Strontium isotopes and rare earth elements as tracers of groundwater-lake water interactions, Lake Naivasha, Kenya

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1789-1805

  Ojiambo, S Bwire ^a   Lyons, W Berry ^b   Welch, Kathy A ^b   Poreda, Robert J ^c   Johannesson, Karen H ^d  

^a Sierra Pacific Power Co   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; ISOTOPES; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; STRONTIUM; SURFACE WATERS;

RADIOGENIC SOURCE ROCKS;

GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY;

GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; LAKE WATER; MASS BALANCE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

KENYA; LAKE NAIVASHA;

EID: 0042975279     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-2927(03)00104-5     Document Type: Article

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