Groundwater and surface water flow to the Merced River, Yosemite Valley, California: 36Cl and Cl- evidence

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1943-1959

  Shaw, Glenn D ^a,b   Conklin, Martha H ^a   Nimz, Gregory J ^c   Liu, Fengjing ^a,d  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c Oldranch Geoscience Associates   (United States)

^d LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

chlorine biogeochemistry; chlorine 36; groundwater and surface water interactions; mountain catchments; source waters; Yosemite National Park

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CHLORINE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LANDFORMS; MIXING; MIXTURES; PROCESS CONTROL; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SNOW; STREAM FLOW;

ALPINE CATCHMENTS; CHLORINE-36; GROUNDWATER AND SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; SOURCE WATERS; STREAMFLOW GENERATIONS; SURFACE WATER FLOWS; YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84895418273     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014222     Document Type: Article

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