Dating of old groundwater-history, potential, limits and future

Isotopes in the Water Cycle: Past, Present and Future of a Developing Science

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 221-241

  Geyh, M A ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3023-1_15     Document Type: Chapter

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