Stable and other isotope techniques for perchlorate source identification

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-100

  Motzer, William E ^a   Mohr, Thomas K G ^b   McCraven, Sally ^a   Stanin, Phyllis ^a  

^a Todd Engineers   (United States)

^b Santa Clara Valley Water District   (United States)

Author keywords

Perchlorate; Perchlorate forensics; Stable isotopes; 37Cl and 18O

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644975874     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920500506964     Document Type: Article

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