Controls on the long-term downward transport of δ2H of water in a regionally extensive, two-layered aquitard system

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Hendry, M J ^a   Barbour, S L ^a   Zettl, J ^a   Chostner, V ^a   Wassenaar, L I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUITARD SYSTEM; AQUITARDS; CLAYSTONES; CLIMATIC CHANGES; GLACIAL TILL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS; PORE WATERS; PROFILE SHAPES; QUATERNARY DEPOSITS; SASKATCHEWAN , CANADA; STUDY AREAS; TIME-DEPENDENT TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT MODELING; UPPER BOUNDARY; UPPER CRETACEOUS; VERTICAL CONTROL; VERTICAL PROFILE; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS; WATER TABLES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITS; HYDROGEOLOGY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

AQUIFERS;

AQUITARD; CLAYSTONE; CLIMATE VARIATION; HYDROGEN; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; POREWATER; PRAIRIE; QUATERNARY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TILL; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER TABLE;

CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN;

EID: 79958802414     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010044     Document Type: Article

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