Transport of carbon-14 in a large unsaturated soil column

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-121

  Plummer, Mitchell A ^a   Hull, Larry C ^a   Fox, Don T ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; CHEMICAL MONITORING; DISTRIBUTION COEFFICIENT; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; GAS DIFFUSION; GAS TRANSPORT; HYDRAULIC MEASUREMENTS; IDAHO NATIONAL ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORIES; INVERSE MODELING; PH-DEPENDENT; PHYSICAL TRANSPORT; REACTIVE GAS; RETARDATION FACTORS; SNAKE RIVER PLAINS; SOIL SAMPLE; TEMPORAL SCALE; TRACER TESTS; TRANSPORT BEHAVIOR; TRANSPORT DATA; TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS; TRANSPORT SIMULATION; UNSATURATED SOIL;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; EXPERIMENTS; GASES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LABORATORIES; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PETROLEUM REFINING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE TRANSPORTATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

SOIL TESTING;

EID: 15444370022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/3.1.109     Document Type: Article

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