Lower groundwater 14C age by atmospheric CO2 uptake during sampling and analysis

Groundwater

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-24

  Aggarwal, Pradeep K ^a   Araguas Araguas, Luis ^a   Choudhry, Manzoor ^a   van Duren, Michel ^a   Froehlich, Klaus ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONTAMINATION; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; GEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; HYPERALKALINE SOLUTIONS; KINETIC ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; RADIOCARBON DATING; SAMPLE COLLECTION;

CARBON; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ISOTOPES; PARTICLE ACCELERATOR ACCESSORIES;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; RADIOCARBON DATING; SAMPLING;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; GROUND WATER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; SUDAN;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; SUDAN;

EID: 84891660834     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gwat.12110     Document Type: Article

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