Noble gas signatures of high recharge pulses and migrating jet stream in the late Pleistocene over Black Mesa, Arizona, United States

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-86

  Zhu, Chen ^a   Kipfer, Rolf ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA; DATA RECORDS; GROUNDWATER MODELS; HIGH WATER; JET STREAMS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; NEW TOOLS; NOBLE GAS; NUMERICAL MODELING; PALEOTEMPERATURES; SANDSTONE AQUIFER;

AQUIFERS; ARID REGIONS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; INERT GASES; JETS; NEON; WATER LEVELS; WATER SUPPLY;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NOBLE GAS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLEISTOCENE; SANDSTONE; WATER LEVEL; WATER SUPPLY;

ARIZONA; BLACK MESA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73849089233     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30369.1     Document Type: Article

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