Linking chloride mass balance infiltration rates with chlorofluorocarbon and SF6 groundwater dating in semi-arid settings: Potential and limitations

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 312-324

  Stadler, Susanne ^a,b   Osenbrück, Karsten ^c   Duijnisveld, Wilhelmus H M ^b   Schwiede, Martin ^d   Böttcher, Jürgen ^d  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aquifer; Botswana; CFC; Helium 3; Hydrogen 3; Infiltration; Isotope ecology; Isotope hydrology; Kalahari; Recharge; Soil water; Sulphur hexafluoride

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; CHLOROFLUOROCARBON; HELIUM; ISOTOPE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TRITIUM;

AGE DETERMINATION; AQUIFER; CFC; CHLORIDE; DATING METHOD; FLUORIDE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HELIUM ISOTOPE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; INFILTRATION; MASS BALANCE; RECHARGE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL WATER; TRACER;

ARTICLE; BOTSWANA; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; SOIL POLLUTANT; STANDARD; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

BOTSWANA; CHLORIDES; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; HELIUM; ISOTOPES; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TRITIUM; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

BOTSWANA; KALAHARI DESERT;

EID: 77956666532     PISSN: 10256016     EISSN: 14772639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2010.508124     Document Type: Article

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