Assessing the use of 3H-3He dating to determine the subsurface transit time of cave drip waters

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 299-311

  Kluge, Tobias ^a,b   Wieser, Martin ^a   Aeschbach Hertig, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age dating; Drip water; Gas tracer; Helium 3; Karst; Noble gases; Residence time; Saturated zone

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; DATING METHOD; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HELIUM ISOTOPE; KARST; NOBLE GAS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHREATIC ZONE; RESIDENCE TIME; SPELEOTHEM; TRACER;

GERMANY;

HELIUM; ISOTOPE; TRITIUM;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

ATMOSPHERE; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; CLIMATE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HELIUM; ISOTOPES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATURE; TRITIUM; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77956689518     PISSN: 10256016     EISSN: 14772639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2010.503893     Document Type: Article

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