Benchmarking the simulation of Cr isotope fractionation

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 497-521

  Wanner, Christoph ^a   Druhan, Jennifer L ^b   Amos, Richard T ^c   Alt Epping, Peter ^d   Steefel, Carl I ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Benchmark; Cr isotopes; Cr reduction; Reactive transport modeling; Remediation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933179714     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: 15731499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-014-9436-9     Document Type: Article

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