Germanium-silicon as a flow path tracer: Application to the Rio Icacos watershed

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Kurtz, Andrew C ^a   Lugolobi, Festo ^a   Salvucci, Guido ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOWS; DOMINANT PATHWAYS; FLOW PATH; HILLSLOPE LANDSLIDES; HYDROGRAPHS; HYDROLOGIC TRACER; MASS BALANCE; MATRIX; NEGATIVE VALUES; OVERLAND FLOW; PUERTO RICO; SOIL MATRICES; SOIL WATER; SOIL-WATER INTERACTION; STORM EVENTS; STORM FLOW; STREAM CHANNELS; STREAM CHEMISTRY; STREAM WATER; THIRD COMPONENT; THREE COMPONENT; THROUGHFLOW; WATER DELIVERY; WATER SAMPLES;

AERODYNAMICS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GERMANIUM; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LANDFORMS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; STORMS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS; WEATHERING;

RIVERS;

BASEFLOW; BEDROCK; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DISSOLVED MATTER; FLOW PATTERN; GERMANIUM; HILLSLOPE; HYDROGRAPH; LYSIMETER; RAINWATER; RUNOFF; SILICON; SOIL WATER; STREAMWATER; THROUGHFLOW; TRACER; TWINNING; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATERSHED;

ICACOS BASIN; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 79959435803     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009853     Document Type: Article

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