Flooding of lignite mines: Isotope variations and processes in a system influenced by saline groundwater

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-179

  Trettin, Rolf ^a,d   Gläßer, Walter ^a,c   Lerche, Ian ^c   Seelig, Ulrike ^b   Treutler, Hanns Christian ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UFZ Centre of Environmental Research Leipzig Halle GmbH ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon 14; Hydrogen 2; Hydrogen 3; Lake water; Mining lakes; Natural isotope variations; Oxygen 18; Radium 226; Radon 222; Saline groundwater; Strontium 87; Sulfur 34; Tritium

Indexed keywords

COAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

CARBON ISOTOPE; FLOODING; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LAKE WATER; LIGNITE; OPEN PIT MINE; RADIUM ISOTOPE; RADON ISOTOPE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER; TRITIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MINING;

COAL; MINING; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

EID: 33646808649     PISSN: 10256016     EISSN: 14772639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10256010600671555     Document Type: Article

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