Clay aquitards as archives of Holocene paleoclimate: δ18O and thermal profiling

Ground Water

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 683-691

  Hendry, M Jim ^a   Woodbury, A D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; ONE DIMENSIONAL;

AQUITARD RESEARCH; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; PALEOCLIMATIC CONDITIONS; THERMAL PROFILING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALUMINUM SILICATE; OXYGEN;

AQUITARD; CLAY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROUNDWATER; HOLOCENE; HYDROGEOLOGY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; POREWATER; RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLAY; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SASKATCHEWAN; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

CANADA; GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA; SASKATCHEWAN;

EID: 35649005004     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2007.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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