Late Pleistocene and Holocene groundwater recharge from the chloride mass balance method and chlorine-36 data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Zhu, Chen ^a   Winterle, James R ^b   Love, Erica I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloride mass balance; Chlorine 36; Paleohydrology; Recharge; Yucca mountain

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CHLORIDE MASS BALANCE (CMB) MODELS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

GROUNDWATER;

CHLORIDE; GROUNDWATER; HOLOCENE; MASS BALANCE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RECHARGE;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

YUCCA;

EID: 1642270042     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR001987     Document Type: Article

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