Chloride and the environmental isotopes as the indicators of the groundwater recharge in the Gobi Desert, northwest China

Environmental Geology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1407-1419

  Ma, J Z ^a   Ding, Z ^a   Gates, J B ^b   Su, Y ^c  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental isotope; Geochemistry; Groundwater recharge; Hexi Corridor; Inner Mongolia Plateau

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL ISOTOPE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER RECHARGE; HEXI CORRIDOR; INNER MONGOLIA PLATEAU;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

CHLORIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; RECHARGE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRITIUM; VADOSE ZONE;

ASIA; BADANJILIN DESERT; CHINA; EJINA BASIN; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; GOBI DESERT; HEXI CORRIDOR; MINQIN BASIN; NEI MONGGOL; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; ZHANGYE;

EID: 51349091883     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-1091-1     Document Type: Article

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