Near-conservative behavior of 129I in the orange county aquifer system, California

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1461-1472

  Schwehr, Kathleen A ^a   Santschi, Peter H ^a   Moran, J E ^b   Elmore, David ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; NUCLEAR FUELS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RADIOISOTOPES;

AQUIFER WATER MASS; BIOPHILIC ELEMENTS; PARTCLE-WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENTS; RADIOIODINE;

IODINE;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; IODINE; RADIONUCLIDE; TRACER;

EID: 23044482007     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2005.02.003     Document Type: Article

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