Evaluation of High-Frequency Mean Streamwater Transit-Time Estimates Using Groundwater Age and Dissolved Silica Concentrations in a Small Forested Watershed

Aquatic Geochemistry

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3, 2014, Pages 183-202

  Peters, Norman E ^a   Burns, Douglas A ^a   Aulenbach, Brent T ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Panola Mountain Research Watershed; Silica concentration; Stormflow; Transit time; Tritium helium; Watershed storage; Weathering

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOREST COVER; HELIUM; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; RUNOFF; SILICA; STORMWATER; STREAMWATER; TRITIUM; WATERSHED;

GEORGIA; PANOLA MOUNTAIN RESEARCH WATERSHED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897480048     PISSN: 13806165     EISSN: 15731421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10498-013-9207-6     Document Type: Article

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