Groundwater residence time in a dissected and weathered sandstone plateau: Kulnura-Mangrove Mountain aquifer, NSW, Australia

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 475-499

  Cendon D I ^a,b   Hankin, S I ^a   Williams, J P ^c   Van der Ley, M ^a,b   Peterson, M ^a,b   Hughes, C E ^a   Meredith, K ^a   Graham, I T ^b   Hollins, S E ^a   Levchenko, V ^a   Chisari, R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NSW Office of Water   (Australia)

Author keywords

aquifer acidification; dissected sandstone plateaus; groundwater and weathering; Kulnura Mangrove Mountain aquifer; modern groundwater input; radiocarbon groundwater residence time

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; AQUIFER; ELEMENT MOBILITY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; RESIDENCE TIME; SANDSTONE; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

AUSTRALIA; KULNURA MANGROVE MOUNTAIN AQUIFER; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84901651777     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: 14400952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2014.893628     Document Type: Article

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