Chemical characteristics of thermal water beneath the eastern Snake River Plain

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 353, Issue , 2002, Pages 205-211

  McLing, Travis L ^a   Smith, Robert W ^a   Johnson, Thomas M ^b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GEOTHERMAL SPRINGS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; RIVERS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; DOMINANT MECHANISM; GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRY; IN COMPOSITIONS; SNAKE RIVER PLAINS; THERMAL AQUIFERS; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER ROCK INTERACTIONS;

HYDROCHEMISTRY;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HOST ROCK; THERMAL SPRING; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

IDAHO; SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71749103604     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2353-1.205     Document Type: Article

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