Stable water isotopes in pore water of Jurassic argillaceous rocks as tracers for solute transport over large spatial and temporal scales

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Gimmi, T ^a,b   Waber, H N ^a   Gautschi, A ^c,f   Rubel A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c Natl Coop Disposal Radioactive W   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e GESELLSCHAFT FÜR ANLAGEN UND REAKTORSICHERHEIT GRS MBH   (Germany)

^f National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ADVECTIVE FLOW; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION;

WATER ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATER ANALYSIS;

ADVECTION; AQUIFER; ARGILLACEOUS DEPOSIT; BOREHOLE; DISTILLATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; JURASSIC; POREWATER; ROCK; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; ZURICH [SWITZERLAND];

EID: 34249029021     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004774     Document Type: Article

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