A Critique of the Internal Tracer Method for Estimating Contaminant Degradation Rates

Ground Water

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 632-639

  Martian, Peter ^a   Sorenson Jr , Kent S ^b   Peterson, Lance N ^b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b North Wind   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; RATE CONSTANTS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

CONTAMINANT DEGRADATION; INTERNAL TRACER METHOD;

GROUNDWATER;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; DEGRADATION; ERROR; FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRACER;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; DEGRADATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRACER;

ARTICLE; FORECASTING; HALF LIFE TIME; METABOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOIL POLLUTANT; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

FORECASTING; HALF-LIFE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0642274984     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2003.tb02401.x     Document Type: Article

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