Quantifying solute transport processes: Are chemically "conservative" tracers electrically conservative?

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Singha, Kamini ^a   Li, Li ^a   Day Lewis, Frederick D ^b   Regberg, Aaron B ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; GROUNDWATER; IONS; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

AQUEOUS COMPOSITION; CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITIES; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER CONCENTRATIONS; ION EXCHANGE REACTIONS; SURFACE CONDUCTANCE;

ION EXCHANGE;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL METHOD; GEOPHYSICS; ION EXCHANGE; MASS TRANSFER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACER;

EID: 84863116306     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3511356     Document Type: Article

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